Who I am

I am an interdisciplinary artist examining the transcendent, informed by the connection between the ancient and the contemporary.

In my examination of the transcendent I continually look to the past. The past is all that we really can see. The future isn’t visible to us except as vague, momentary glimpses which we mostly discount. We can only look with any certainty at our history, our ancestors, our heritage – tormented and enticed by the fragmented whispers and murmurs we find. We are looking across the eons, hunting for things that make sense to us, searching for ways to live richer, fuller lives in the here and now.

I am intrigued by process. I work with materials of all kinds to create sculptures, tapestries, paintings and mixed media artwork. I make stories with words and imagery, looking for ways to stir the imagination, to arouse the soul, to enflame the passions. I constantly look to blur the line between art and craft; a line that I see as a historically arbitrary social construction. I believe in questioning the status quo.

As an interdisciplinary artist I explore possibilities. I examine the connections between art and life, context and concept, inspiration and artifact. As an interdisciplinary artist I weave together the various parts of my understandings, experiences and involvements as a fabric for my artwork. I spin the threads of my ever-changing awareness of history, sociology, archeology, anthropology, earth science, feminism, transcendence, music, science fiction, politics, mass media, workplace milieu and domestic life into rich material for art.

I could make long detailed lists of what I do, but I'm not sure that would address who I am... as an american with a strong protestant-based work ethic, I too often equate what I do with who I am. Perhaps a better understanding of who I am would come from listing what I like...

I am still learning who I am, who I need to be. This learning process seems to be an eternal process of examining the changes I experience, peeling off the layers of understandings and misunderstandings and examining the resulting non-exclusive contradictions.