My work with images emphasizes invention. Anthropomorphic shapes offer multiple, ambiguous interpretations. The artworks do away with narrative, replacing it with the vocabulary of color, shape, line and movement. Meandering line often serves as the beginning of a process, suggesting forms and interactions.
At first glance, these images appear to be nonobjective abstractions, teeming with enigma. Upon further study one can discover references to urban and natural environments. Eyes, faces and figures abound. The crowds and sounds of the city converge. Fluid movements, curves, vortexes, color schemes and exquisite details reference the natural world of landscape, ocean, sky and cosmos. These are objective and subjective abstractions of the world we live in. The message here is about the freedom to imagine and enjoy.
I am attracted to both the microcosmic and the macrocosmic. How much information can be gained from a close reading of details? What coherent, elegant and powerful messages are offered from an overall glance? What is hidden, what is exposed? The images work well from a distance or close up. From a distance, many are simple and graphic. Upon closer viewing, they offer subtle details and rich textures.
Life confronts us with chaos. Through art we come to terms with this chaos. With image making, we are confronted by our own world views and their relationship to those of others. Perhaps we could use more of that in the world today.