This work started through an exploration of visual language. I, like a plethora of other artists, set out to uncover a personal and communicable symbolic language. As this inquiry has continued it has become a mirror for the evolution of my creative processes and ideas.

 

My working method began with an autonomous approach which allowed me the freedom to explore and dig deep within my own consciousness. It is the recurring symbols and the relationships that emerged from this study that I applied to observational studies of landscapes and plant life. This “real” context allowed me to give more specific meanings to the painted symbols and marks I structured. By charting what these symbols mean to me parallels became clear within creation mythology and scientific theory. The grid, for instance, is used to give a point of reference on a map: it could be likened to the web of life woven by the fates in the mythology of the Greeks and in my own work it represents the earth and the grounded path.

 

My images expand on the idea of interpreting the fundamental. They are the product of my imagination reaching out for the energy that exists in a place or thing and then transforming it into something new, something that exists in the world of my imagination. The impulse to imagine and create--to make something new--is natural, a need possessed by all at some level. One stage of creation is questioning that which one creates. Through my own questioning I have found myself dissecting parts of my paintings, pulling out individual forms and then making three-dimensional fragments of them.

 

Each installation is a journey, the journey of my imagination as it builds highly subjective idealized worlds into a form for others to share. In every variation I attempt to unveil the visions that are my most intimate interactions with the world.