I am interested in art as a language, a universal human emotion, that can reach beyond miscommunications and words left unsaid.

My work is an extension of myself that translates emotions and psychological tensions into tactile images.  It is a working process through which I come to terms with mortality.  I contemplate isolation, intimacy, coexistence, simultaneous construction and destruction, and the passage of time.  Using a personal mythology of shapes and objects I create quiet, unspoken, internal narratives of existence that explore the balance of being oneself and being connected at the same time.

My art making is immediate, obsessive, and intuitive.  It is a process-based love of discovery and invention.  Substance, or rather, tactility is as important to me as imagery.  I move freely between mediums and materials, combining translucent washes with opaque blobs of paint, or smooth gouache with hand-embroidered knots.