Artist's Statement
Some of the continual influences in my art are the human figure, relationships, ancestry, mythology, and psychology. This explains why I frequently return to portraiture; a genre conducive to meditations both personal and external.
The process of making art is a lot like exploring a dream. Sometimes you only have odds and ends to work with, other times you may have a vivid idea and clear meaning in front of you. I believe that the process of making art has its own value for the sole possibility of deepening your understanding of the human experience while witnessing the manifestations of your perspectives right before your very eyes.
My recent work explores the threads of family stories and all but forgotten ancestry. While exploring the history of my own family, the most impressive discovery was how few family stories survived. Facts and antiques? I have plenty. Stories, those personal narratives that give meaning and flesh to facts and antiques? They exist mostly as bloodline mirages, imagined or constructed from facts, but with little basis for truth.