my work
My studio practice explores the transformative, restorative and life-giving forces of existence. Through imagery and sometimes unusual media, I seek to show life at the critical point of transition.
My work uses the human mind as a centerpiece and references neuroscience, meditation and the remapping of brain circuitry. Subjects draw directly from my cognitive life while my abstract imagery references fragments of indecipherable code, as well as the natural world.
As I work, I try to tap into a state of flow and decipher something not immediately known. A secret alphabet may appear from the swoosh of a gesture line, or the shape of a human heart might be suggested by a crevice in a sea sponge.
I enjoy working with mediums that are difficult to control – watery inks pooled on paper or film, thinned oils, and human hair on paper – and allowing the mediums to come to life and exhibit their own natural properties, thus diminishing my power over the outcome. Working in this manner is like redefining how one interprets the world through cognitive remapping practices, such as meditation. The immediacy of finding a solution, or controlling the situation, seems to fade away and the richness of the details takes hold of the mind.
I graduated from Connecticut College in 1996 and am currently pursuing a MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I currently serve as the Manager of Public Art Process creating a public art program for Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.
