Artist statement
I tell stories via painting, performance, sculpture, research, technology, and immersive interdisciplinary installations; I take great pleasure in creating conceptual art for everyday people.
I give myself the gifts of grace and freedom when it comes to choosing ways to engage in story and play, all of it informed by my background in psychology, ecology, non-dual philosophy, and performing arts. My creative narratives unfold on an assortment of surfaces and physical environments with a variety of media: acrylic paint on thrifted canvases, experimental video on digital screens, sumi ink on giclée prints, discarded items retrieved from sidewalks, sonic prayers at the base of Redwood trees, songs in response to community hardship uploaded to Soundcloud, leading groups in movement and meditation, and sculpture fashioned from personal wildfire relics. By mixing traditional, theoretical, and technological media, what emerges is an experiential dialogue that blurs the boundaries between the tangible, imaginal, and virtual. |
I give myself the gifts of grace and freedom when it comes to choosing ways to engage in story and play. Variation is a constant and demanding artistic partner, so being grounded in recurrent themes helps me stay connected to the through line of what is presenting itself to be expressed. Some of my thematic anchors include: ecological consciousness, what it means to be at home, liberation from self-inflicted constriction, rejection of rigid meaning-making, and befriending all aspects of individual inner experience. |