I am learning a lot about my own process as a creative, as an artist, as someone who engages in object making. 

There have been many points in the last few years where I have been very critical of the ways that I branch off in many different directions in my work. I have been very critical of how during my process, I critique my own work for lack of cohesion, lack of focus, lack, lack, lack...

and I am learning to look at it differently. 


I am an explorative, multi-media artist, who allows conceptual ideas to flow into my work, and who allows the presence and inertia of inspiration, to vastly expand, through various mediums, through various aesthetics, past, over, and under, flipping it all upside down, contradicting myself, supporting myself, questioning myself, until I reach a certain point...

Where all of the intensity, the mix-matched patterns, and points of stress crack, and what I am left with... 

is unknown as of now. 

This is the exciting part. I have come to realize that one of the most valuable parts of my own process, is that I consistently surprise myself, I am constantly unsettled, unsatisfied, and reaching for more. Reaching for more, leads to a point where fragments weave themselves together to produce a new way of looking at some aspect of meaning which I find interesting. 

I am an explorative, multi-media artist, who is enthralled with engaging in new ways of working. In the past few years, I have moved from and into

painting:
to installation work
to
printmaking:
to collage:
interspersed with spoken word
to
currently have moved into 
glasswork.

I have found that any medium I work in, or have worked in just flows into and out of the next. 

Healthy conclusion, I think.

Next,

One aspect of my work that has been utterly consistent throughout it all, is well... the obvious.

It's created by me...

but on a deeper level,

My inspiration has always come from a place of exploring a tension between the apparently physical world around us, and the world beyond or within. the metaphysical. the world beyond the apparent physical which for me includes: the body as a tool for a soul to experience, metaphorical relationships between physical process and spiritual growth; from physical growth and transformations within a person and environmentally (from the most acute and intimate experiences to the vastly external, eternal, and universal happenings). 

"tension between the apparently physical world around us and the world beyond or within" = I believe that anything that happens in the physical world that we see, that is reflected within our mind, and in our eyes, is reflective of spiritual development, ie. when my parents divorced when I was five years old it is because as a soul and being I was meant to understand that even though parents may communicate through different languages and different value systems, essentially all truly are trying to express what they feel are the best ways to go about nurturing and enabling a child to develop in the best ways possible in within particular circumstances. well... thats's one of the many examples. 


Anyway,

I am a multi-media artist who engages in a process of object making, rooted in exploring the tension between the physicality and spirituality of human experience. I am interested in the world within, beyond, or in-between. transparency. looking at it all with an transparent eye.