As an artist, I see, examine, imagine, and paint natural shapes. Throughout history, humans have put meaning to the mark, as religious, expressive, or decorative. The natural laws of science, especially in nature, create patterns in the physical universe. Our daily routines, systems of belief, and work habits also create specific models.

We are immersed in endless pattern. I examine this phenomenon by creating individual images composed of many small parts as they relate to the space around them. My paintings are abstract, using formal concepts that have suggestions of a personal reality. The patterns of our lives formed by our behaviors which are tessellated by overlaying events define our individuality. Likewise, I create images using the mark as a metaphor for what I find in both the physical and metaphysical world.

My paintings express the dynamism that exists in the spaces between everything, spiritual or secular. These spaces, according to modern theories of physics, are filled with crucial interactions between the world’s smallest particles. Such spatial energy provides inspiration for my practice.  I fill my work, at times, with intense patterns, dizzy with tightly packed movement with an occasional visual stilling as a relief. Other paintings are a closeup look of an interactionbetwen only a few particulates.

I imagine how particles moving through the air we breathe, water we drink and even on the ground which we stand intermingle with our bodies. We are also smaller parts of a larger world, derived from particles.  The universe likewise is a macrocosm  larger than our world. The work reveals in a unique expression of the common energy that flourishes among all things.  Color and pattern is a driving force for exploring the dynamic negative and positive space.

On a spiritual plane, I see my work as looking back to the unseen practices of our collective ancestors and the traditions they have left us. This work opens up a portal to how we can transform them into our own.  We all have a spiritual basement that makes us who we are. The spiritual particles that influence us in many unpredictable ways.  I tap into the things that come from our beginnings.  Our unknown may be found in the subconscious, religious, cultural, biological, imagined, or for some chemically induced. I invite the viewer to come with their point of view to questions that my work may invoke.