Artist Statement

The best art taps into something deep. There is truth in art, like there is truth in math – nature – the world. Art is a universal language. There are no words; but we understand.

Visual art, like music, can have a rhythm. I like the way ocean waves splash on a canvas, or how crosshatched lines on paper form a face, or how the swing of a hammer against a point chisel knocks off a chunk of marble – gradually revealing a figure within. Art has rhythm, movement, a sense of time or timelessness. I sometimes find myself lost in art – trying to capture a moment – oblivious to everything except that glob of paint hanging from the tip of a brush in the second before it touches the canvas.

Art is worthwhile because it is hard. The artist is an imperfect storyteller describing the agony and the beauty of the world. It is daunting and humbling to endeavor to capture such big things within a stone or on a canvas.
I rarely conceive of a finished work in detail before I start. Instead, I let the process unfold. Nothing beautiful comes from the artist but rather it comes from the meditative act of creating. I like to leave remnants of the process – palimpsests of creation – to acknowledge that in the end, the artist’s hand captures only a glimpse.