Throughout time, artists have searched for ways to make the invisible present in visible form. I am especially inspired by ancient timeless forms: mythology, writing as image, scratched markings on cave walls. My work builds slowly, with months of overpainting so that what was there (in the past) is covered over by the current now. The textured surface that results from this process holds the life of the former generations of images, even when they remain obscured. Jorge Luis Borges spoke of creating not as making something new, but rather as a kind of remembrance, an uncovering of something hidden. Joseph Campbell, with his multicultural studies, reminds us of the stories and imagery that accompany the universal struggle of being human, mapped onto the invisible force that holds us here. I hope something of these influences are reflected in my work. 

Stillness is essential. I am impelled by the necessity for listening, for the uninterrupted quiet that counters the demands of clocks, computers, cell phones and deadlines. I am drawn to the “noise” of the natural world, and the dark sky, a kind of presence which opens the bigger cycles of time and memory. It is this deeper presence that opens the path to what I strive for: to an authentic productivity, to doing the work one is called to do.