Artist Statement

I am interested in distilling the poetic nature of moments that force profound personal or societal decisions to be made.  Moments that, because of their unpredictable and emotionally extreme nature, change our spiritual, intellectual and emotional "DNA" forever.  I have attempted to visually explore some of these moments in my own life, in the lives of those close to me, and in some cases in the lives of people I have only read or heard about. 

While these sudden and unplanned moments are often heartbreaking and traumatic these same moments can, in time, yield strength, hope, and connectedness.  My hope is the viewer experiences the tension of these seemingly opposing forces in all of the presented current works.  

Much of my work is simply an iconic or symbolic suggestion of how these particular events come together as an overall feeling or experience.  Some works come across as subtly foreboding as if the moment will be disrupted by an intuitively felt action or experience, while in other works, the viewer is left feeling that something significant has just happened.  In all cases, these works represent my poetic vision of  both private and/or public moments of significance and meaning, ranging from the quiet and gentle to the potentially catastrophic and violent.