ARTIST STATEMENT

My work it is a visual interpretation of “place”. Place encompasses the concept of ‘time’ and the act of memory associated with it. Place is an extension of the idea of landscape because landscape can undergo significant changes but the place stays constant. Time and place commingle in my work as place (landscape) experienced, invented, and seen through the lens of memory is interpreted as abstract/mechanical marks suggesting organic components, and built elements in our environment. As each work of art develops, displaying the search for the particular meter, dynamics, harmony and/or discord, merging with the melody and texture of the place/piece and in turn, combines with visual ideas that act as signs and symbols of farms, suburban landscapes, geographical schema, aerial views of gardens, borders, and mapping serving as my conceptual foundations.

The work reflects my interest in cross-currents of the arts. For example: Lines of fiber in cloth mimic furrow lines in plowed fields. These things expand beyond abstraction - by incorporating barely representational images. Visual metaphors abound in the work and are there to engage the viewer with the familiar, unique, curious, humorous, similar, and dissimilar use of random geometric forms juxtaposed against/with shapes, hovering lines, and colors that intersect, overlap, and interact with one another.

As an important addendum to my visual vocabulary, I uses the machinery of my musical training to develop the particular meter, dynamics, harmony/discord, melody and texture of each piece thus, adding an implied auditory dimension to each composed image.