Petition Painting

Rather than discussing specific concepts behind individual pieces, a mention of the overarching themes that inform my work may be helpful. Everything I create is born out of a need to articulate for myself the terrain of my own passage through this life- exploring events and implications of a spiritual, emotional and physical journey that in turn alludes to the universal experience of other humans. The things I create are objects of devotion- personal evidence of a process that is verbally inexpressible. Over many years my work has evolved into a meditation on themes of searching, passage, conflict. balance, resolution and purification in a landscape where events and objects assume multi-layered symbolic significance and actions become ceremonial in nature.