Artist’s Statement

Movement and music vitally inflect the improvised choreography of the paintings. The relationship with the “canvas” is intense and instinctive, accessing and allowing marks that arise through the uncensored consciousness. Chance associations arise from the immediacy/physicality of intuition and observation. The residue of these actions reveals a visual narrative that documents and honors the human experience. A deep overlay of play, language, events, dreams, objects, the self, the ordinary, sense/nonsense, the seen/unseen, the ancestors and progeny, memory, and daily experience is recorded.

In indigenous cultures, things done (the making of objects: art), and things happening (music and dance) are one. Action/process becomes the principal mode of thought. The artist is called to respond to things happening and so documents the imperatives of life.