ARTIST STATEMENT

I am attracted to images that are mysterious, and that may be interpreted in different ways. A composition begins as a response to the materials before me; primarily small shapes cut from books, magazines and other photographic sources. I place myself in an atmosphere of ideas, gleaned mostly from reading, but also from music, film, visual art, and occasionally the real world. Then I let the process happen, trusting that “accident favors the prepared mind.”

My work reflects long held interests in animal life and nature, art history, pattern and texture. Much of my work deals with interrelationships of creatures, whether they are humans, animals or something in between. The present themselves in “open narratives.”

My recent pieces involve nature in a more elusive form. I have always been intrigued by the microscopic world, how the life forms that are part of our everyday reality are much spookier than contrived monsters. Some of the most sinister of these are viruses, bacteria and assorted pathogens. The word “spore” is threatening to us, even if we can’t picture exactly what one looks like.

I have also been exploring the interior of the body (human and otherwise) through the use of radiographs.