About

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Artist Statement

My artworks express a devotion to inexplicable wonder and awe; nature, poetry, fairytales/storytelling and looking at Life ‘up close and personal’, the totemic, the mystical, the psyche, dreamtime and all that is felt as indescribably sacred, whatever world within a world you feel connected to or from... 

I serve the imaginative landscapes and characters that emerge when I let go and follow my intuitions and feelings; a synthesis emerges, of enduring forms, relationships and uniqueness. What I experience as profundity slowly unfolding is worth the creating-time, it also gives my mind a place to go in order to mediate all that feels obstructionist and counterintuitive in Life. 

All of my creations come into and from new stories and regions of Imagination, the sculpture emerges and its story shortly thereafter, it’s a curious process...  There are also, to this day, sculptures than remain completely anonymous although they shine bright with story nonetheless.  Sometimes I assign my artworks specific prose-lines, multiple titles throughout their emerging that function as anchor points, which leads the Imagination to shape a narrative, if so desired as the viewer and myself is called to do so. 

I appreciate metaphysics, the paranormal, the mineral and microscopic worlds, insects, the tiniest of actors on the world-stage, biomorphic shapes, the array and ‘math’ of emergence/birth and departure/decay.  I pay attention to textures, juxtapositions, ‘crossed-wires’, the odd and felt impossibly fantastic, all the little details that would otherwise be passed by daily (and at night), the ‘not desired to be looked for and found’, the in-between of what’s there in the obvious, the hidden poetry in the taken for granted... 

I endeavor to celebrate natural beauty within the unnatural, within the subjects of The Alien and Odd; if your eye for art is weird, then ‘the weird’ is natural, since within you lives its biodome.  I create new myths, archetypes and desire to conjure and literally mold fresh versions of contemporary ancient characters/lore, questing for deep, visual conversation/sharing with the human-spirit through quiet, subtle forms (sometimes alongside The Other who shows up in art, that boundary-maker within who reveals itself as sovereign to itself with boundaries, feelings and existence…  I’m devoted to what flows spontaneously; my process could be described as sculptural-stream-of-consciousness. I hail the primordially beautiful, to the divine feminine and masculine within and to the anonymous/alien parts too.

I consider the creating of art as a sacred rite though not necessarily religious; it’s an expression of my spirit and what I feel is beautiful, worthy, fluid and a part of me to offer up, like a seed or bloom.  You might say that all genuine art is a spirit-rite, one not only coming from the passages that’s a person’s life, but the same one that stands still with the real world as its happening. Sculpting and writing helps to anchor, transforming the day-to-day contradictions so to offer a deeper response to what’s been received as a kind of reconciliation or survival pact.  My artistic creations are also replies to an ‘all species ancestry’, my personal ancestry, human-family/friends, my dreamtime-life, the in-between dimensions and to those I do not know.

I do not rigorously plan my art; there may be a preliminary first sketch and that outline then affixes itself as an ‘axis’ in regards to my illustrations and digital photographic-art, but I never plan my sculptures outside of having enough raw materials to manage their emergences, in that they patiently spring directly from ‘the process’.  I receive some images through visions that show up in the wax as I sculpt or forms that ‘talk’ to one another’s juxtapositions as they’re collaged, while others simply flow through and out of me as I let go and allow the pieces to show what they want. 

 I am interested in the magic of how colors, form, symbol and composition awe and conjure wordless states of personal communion within each of us and give something spirit-filled and rooted to be with, to relate and what those relations imply and allude to, how art supports quality of life, reminding us of the other-side-of-life-isms, the in-between-the-lines, the changeless and mysteriously beautiful sides of ourselves that are beyond thought, deed and career. I am appreciative that art also keeps that ‘changeless within us’ company, serving as a kind of totem or talisman, a mascot of sorts, having the power to absorb the personal projections we offer it (how it internally can take that projection and weave back into it a correspondence that might actually change one’s mind, assisting in evolving forwards) when we truly see it and are seen by its mirroring-qualities, it keeps a person company, that, as art, only it can. Art gives back a safe space to hold ourselves in and a very special version of unconditional mentorship. 

I want my art to be proof that the spirit can have a signature without affixing itself to a name.  I feel that art lives in the spontaneity of a child when it creates an invisible adventure out of The Nothingness that’s found within a deep, sun-filled forest (or dark tentative dusk) and records it in whatever form for all to read, while using it as a map to live in and endure the present with. Art can be a tactile, visceral symbol, a kind of familiar to refining one’s autonomy, self-appreciation, courage and purpose.  It’s my mission to celebrate my life and give through the ceremonies of writing, artwork and conversation, to inspire others to explore their invisible sides and to express their feelings by similar disciplines so to notice the untouchable aspects of themselves, labor them into existence so to reflect and share their individuality with the world and refine that which is there in the midst of a supreme immersion of Solitude’s timelines.