STATEMENT

The fundamental variety of my thesis work is unified by a desire to explain aspects of duality seen through a conscious and subconscious interest in balancing representational forms and abstractions. These are revealed through an essential tension of the states representing absence and presence.  It is my intention that my art be conveyed in a multitude of ways through mixed media—through two-dimensional charcoal line drawings, large and small photo paintings in oils, small, delicate acrylic paintings on plastic, black and silver etchings, and large scale hanging fabric tapestries.                                                

  My work blurs the lines between what is conventionally considered representational, and what is abstract. I have always worked from my own photographs as a reference for my work. In taking photographs of real objects and textures from nature, I can then zoom in to focus on specific portions of the original locale. I then convert it to black and white to remove any color that would indicate its original identity and thus, a new concept is born. The purpose of this is to fashion something entirely new, simply from what is already established.