Artist's Statement
The surest task of an artist is the making of a self that has the capacity to create, and directing this creative capacity toward a significant direction. This task must be approached with great patience and commitment, understanding that self-as-artist is an every day & lifelong pursuit.
This making of self has meant finding what leads me, and pursuing the thread of that lead. Immersion in and appreciation of Nature has been a constant pursuit, twin to my pursuit of the arts, assuring that art and life retain the living quality of intuitive response.
Although my range is wide, I regularly return to the human figure as an aspect of Nature. This process is intuitive, based upon a long background with media and the figure. I explore existential questions of identity with methods akin to allegory – suggesting universal human qualities while also retaining open-ended expressions for the viewer’s personal dialogue. Where our bodies are intrinsic to the natural universe, the human being is also the perpetuator and inheritor of the artificial world; the sculptural figure acts as a bridging double metaphor. My work draws from years of immersion in the alpine landscape, and while this experience is not rendered literally, it informs my approach to the human body as natural form. The esoteric isolation of nature finds its doppelganger in the existential isolation of the modern world. The gap between the two is the core of my interest. Therein the figure acts as a vehicle for artistic exploration, rather than an end in itself.
