Artist’s Statment
My passion to create arises from and is colored by the three main fields where I have studied; Philosophy, Psychology and Photography. In all three of these subjects attempts are made to capture and communicate what is either invisible or incomprehensible. My art then is an attempt to materialize memories, concepts, images ,and other inhabitants of the conscious and unconscious mind in an unmediated way that strips words from their symbolic references, thus revealing an unformed state of mind. My art is personal in that I believe that art, just like psychoanalysis helps shed layers of artifice on the way to the true self and can be a psychological mirror that enables me to view my inner self. And yet I find that the very process of manifesting those conscious and unconscious memories and feelings changes them in some fundamental way. Recently I have been contemplating time, age, and how past events shape the present and so while I am painting or I feel like I am engaging in a dialogue with the present moment and discovering how it came to be. Much of my recent work reflects these meditations.