ARTIST'S STATEMENT
For ten years I worked as a psychotherapist with individuals, families and the incarcerated. My education and prior work experience strongly inform my paintings by incorporating my unique personal experiences and symbolic thinking into images from the architecture of spaces I have seen.
Architecture of order and calm is used in my art as a vehicle for meditation and meaning. There is a function and aesthetic to these precise, geometric, and honest spaces. Space is important for its emptiness. Clean space is dynamic. I create passages of inside-outside space, lightness and darkness, and containment and expansion as meditations on the "interior" world of the individual. These dynamics are metaphors for the emotional states of life's psychological and spiritual journey.
Free from distractions, and reduced to essentials, my interiors are a purposeful focus on what is most vital. The beauty of simplicity brings the freedom necessary in a search for what lies beneath and above the human person. The viewer assumes the perspective of an engaged participant. Mirrors of the mind and soul, these harmonious structures of simplicity, order, and calm, allow spontaneous insights and moments of introspection.
I believe art-making demands an inner life. Attentive observers encountering art must necessarily be moved to ponder questions of inner experience. A work of art can be a place to acquire truth not found in written words or teachings, but in personal insight.
Art is advocacy. My art is fundamentally concerned with the development of the individual toward self-discovery. We are not here in this life by accident. Genuine art leads one to face oneself.
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