When was the last time you
questioned and imagined what a Bird-of-Paradise looked like? There is no need to fantasize because the
Internet provides the world with thousands of images of everything possible and
it takes seconds to discover appearances.
This is great for education however, ingenuity and the unknown are lost;
people think and remember less with such vast references at their
fingertips. My artwork fills in
this gap, encouraging people to imagine, interpret, and converse. I have created a collection of prints
and textiles, which converse with each other and unify aspects of design. The
historical and theoretical context of my work is influenced by fiction,
surrealism, Japanese prints, ornament, narrative abstraction, and
formalism. Innovation springs from
methods of chance and intuitive spontaneity, which results in automatic
drawings. These drawings depict
abstracted biomorphic and zoological characters I then place in different
settings or situations. Inimitable
and enigmatic, my work touches on fantasy, humor, and the bizarre aspects of
life and dreaming. It also provides entertainment that radiates energy and
hopefully conjures happiness.
Surreal motifs encourage wonder, fuel imagination, and cannot be defined
by an Internet search; everyone will interpret the work with their own twist,
what is yours?