Artist’s Statement
even stones have voices
sorting through my experience,
loosely organized in sketchbooks and photo files, on shelves and in memory
recovering, trying out, exposing, juxtaposing,
seeking or discovering affinities
celebrating
the vital, complex, ordered/chaotic, mysterious
world of nature
with which even our present—concrete and silicone—
lives are intricately interconnected
creating emblems and ecologies
of flora, fauna, sky, water, stone, light, sound
metaphors of origin, life, death and life—
of time (slow as fossilization, instantaneous as a glance)
before, being, and beyond
structure and energy in abstract patterns
great forces underlying generous details
exploration and exploitation of the unique languages spoken by different media:
textured acrylic on canvas; oil crayon and graphite on translucent film;
screenprinting on plexiglass; photography—each articulate in its own way
images, materials and form coalesce into meaning
substance and essence,
soil and soul—
even stones have voices