Life is a terminal progressive march toward death, a series of ebbs and flows, all the way until the end. The daily struggle is of acceptance, maintaining emotional control, feelings of usefulness, initiative, and the little things that create joy. The creative act is a rebellion against chaos and meaninglessness.

​In creating this work, my goal has been to find ways to embrace the ebbs and flows, to translate them, in a way, into new languages, and to create work that can speak to many different kinds of joy and loss in the human experience.

The imagery derives from quilt patterns, references to cubism, abstracted shapes in the art and architecture from my visits to Thai temples, and from looking at medieval mystic illustrations. The use of symbolic visual language is intended to open up the mysterious and the underlying fabric of spiritual being.

The work is often done in stages with the end result never immediately visualized, and it can often follow illogical or unusual progressions- with starts and stops and sideways pathways, reversals, erasures, abandonment and rediscoveries. This allows the pieces to offer resistance to the artist’s efforts. It can be like a conversation, with the artist telling the piece what to do or be, and the artwork offering its own input and debate. I have found that the complexity of life demands comparable complexity through its portrayal.