Artist Statement

2008

An incredibly complex relationship exists between our thoughts and what we experience. My interest in this cause and effect relationship--between the invisible realm of thought and the tangible realm of the world we experience--comes from a desire to understand how our thoughts impact and help us to create our experiences in the physical world. In a larger sense I am questioning how much control we have.

I reference plant life for the subject matter of my work for its beauty, but more importantly, for the deep associations it holds with the very essence of life. These forms symbolize the physical world. Depicted in an idealized state, the plant forms also serve as a metaphor for the experiences we seek to attain. Ethereal and abstract elements together represent our thoughts and intentions, as well as a sense of the unknown. Vacillating between abstraction and representation, the work visually presents the unseen interplay between our thoughts and the world we live in.