“Wavering between the profit and loss. In this brief transit where the dreams cross. The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
-T.S. Eliot
I am a nomad. Growing up in Stamford CT and Vero Beach FL, juxtapositions of urban environments and natural coastlines fill my memory. I have always been in a state of limbo; moving between locations; of having and then losing my mother, of beginning a career in criminal justice and winding up as a painter. These liminal spaces have become my greatest source of inspiration and have led to my continual investigation of duality. My concerns reside in the middle ground between vice and virtue; beauty and degradation; light and shadow; life and death.
Process, ritual, material and meaning are an irrevocable starting point in my work. Transformative and alchemical material studies are a necessary component in my practice to attain a higher understanding of material. Investigations through a physical approach married with my use of visceral surfaces allow me to question and explore a visual dialogue that engages sensual experience. The work becomes a conduit that reveals the integrity of the material and maker.
My current work investigates the sensuous qualities of wool. I hybridize the physical process of felting, originally developed by the nomads, with the language of post-modernist painting. Process and fiber have an alliance with the flesh that affirms the human presence in the world and intertwines with both transcendence and corporeality. My work emphasizes a physical engagement. This tactility allows the viewer to engage the work and become a collaborator, not a recipient of a one-way message. Ultimately, my goal is to dissolve borders and boundaries; not construct them.
