My art is about survival and reckoning. 

A few years ago, I came to a decision about the art that I wanted to create. I was creating work that was aesthetically pleasing but there was a lack of meaning. I needed my work to have meaning. That has been the impetus behind the series, What Doesn't Kill Me. They are the stories from my childhood catastrophes and near death experiences and the Self Portraits series, which show me with different concepts visualized through digital and practical effects. 

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The second body of work would be my Infinite Spirals. It all began when I  tried imagining an infinite shape, a shape that conveyed the embrace of everything, opening and revealing and evolving. I thought about the circle but it wasn't quite enough. Then it came along in a most high dimensional way, a shape to resemble all the ideas. That begat many creations and the Dance of Life has the same concepts behind its creation but was produced in a completely different way. There is dancer as the axis, and with a spin, creates the intertwining pattern; the embodiment of life and existence, painted with twist and turns. And that led to Orbital Dance, a piece I made for the Desert Biennial Project. A dance of painted spins and sashays, but as opposed to stationary spins, the spins extended out, painting the dance of life across the spectrum, becoming its own galaxy.

 

​My last body of work that I’ll be telling you about is a passion for me in a different way than the others. Rejectamenta came from the need to express myself and desire to create but unfortunately not having access or financial means for art supplies, I started making art from everyday objects. Ubiquitous items that I could see for their potential. I’ve made Bottle Vignettes from my lotion bottles and many other up-cycled pieces. And I like that these pieces often are one of a kind because so much of what goes into a piece are bits and trinkets that I’m keeping out of the landfill that I may have collected over decades or found discarded and perhaps deemed no longer useful that have a uniqueness through nostalgia. And then there’s my thing with creating pieces from packaging. There’s so much of it, cardboard, single use plastic, and ubiquitous as all get out. But it’s all art supplies to me. And I would like to make art accessible in that way. Show that art can be made out of anything, you just need the vision to see the potential. Part of my process is to be ecological but it’s also my way to even the playing field when it comes to bringing art into the world.