Description of work: The expressions in my work are personal and directed from within. I’m currently investigating the relationship that elements largely beyond my control impose on my life and environment in an effort to understand and express some of the unique experiences I have had. This interest stems from my ongoing struggles with neuropathic pain on the entire left side of my body due to spinal cord damage.
One goal of my recent artwork is to find a true, meaningful way of depicting the sensations I feel daily, both emotional and physical…sometimes I am standing in the burning embers of a fire and other times I am sitting on a block of ice. Often it’s a combination of both. As I am living with the impossible mixture of the two elements, I have tried to capture this reality and some of the feelings that result in my paintings.
My series [Cold+Hot], is the result of repetitive actions that become meditative exercises in consciously arranging forms, lines, and colors into compositions. |