artist statement

Making art is honoring the universe.

My work begins in direct contact with the natural world. Using grasses and reeds gathered from the landscape, I apply paint and ink to their surfaces and press paper or canvas onto them with my hands and feet. Through this process of contact and transfer, the rhythms, textures, and movements of the environment are embedded into the work.

The work moves between abstraction and representation, holding traces of wind, light, and time without resolving into fixed imagery.  By removing a defined narrative, the work invites a more immediate, physical response—one rooted in sensation, memory, and perception.

I believe that something of God enters the work—not symbolically, but physically—held as a presence within the work between material, gesture, and the natural world. The work is not made alone, but formed through a shared act.

I think of each piece as a kind of membrane—something both permeable and present—through which the viewer passes. In that encounter, the work becomes less an image and more an experience, suggesting connections to origin, continuity, and the larger forces that shape the natural world – and us.

I hope my art makes people wonder.