Past Artworks
Artist’s Statement
Exploring themes of aging, death and new life in the context of geological time, my work utilizes an image vocabulary incorporating strata, stone shapes and textures, fossils, and deteriorating and regenerating cells. Aging is a transitional process through which cells die and new cells are generated, resulting in a new being both physiologically and psychologically. Conceptually, in the context of evolution of new forms of life over millions of years, the aging of a human comprises an infinitesimally small period of time.
My work incorporates imagery created through accidental processes such as aqueous monotype and toner wash lithography. Aqueous monotype is inherently a process of impermanence. The acrylic or oil paints floating upon the water engender entirely new and unique images, shifting on the water until captured by immersing the paper or panel. The process represents the phenomenon of my changing identities in different stages of my life, which can be likened to the Big Bang and the rapidly changing universe over the geological eons. In the end, fossils are all that is left behind.
