What you surround yourself with and clothe yourself in matters. The way it’s created matters.

In present and past, in ancient cultures and religions and throughout human existence, people have tried to solve problems, envision new worlds, connect time and space, or to simply state they were just actually there. You see it in the handprints of the Caves at Lascaux, read it in myths and archetypes throughout the worlds stories, in the tale of the famous Tower of Babel. You see it in pottery throughout different times and cultures and at the thoughtful construction of ancient ruins. You see it in the kinetic marks of the abstract expressionists, the color field worlds created by Helen Frankenthaler and the colorful Quilts of Gee’s Bend. You experience it through shamanistic spoken poetry at a Patti Smith concert, in the narratives in the Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries from the Middle Ages, and in the psychedelic spinning of whirling dervishes. Pulling from deep interests in philosophy and time and our connection to the cosmos, with a practice of recording personal dream cycles and utilizing pattern, texture and movement through mark making, I am interested in creating small worlds devoid of existence during a specific period. I mesh patterns and imagery from greek mythology,  Egyptian hieroglyphics, aboriginal symbols and my own dreams. I am interested in primal, guttural reactions to mystical meditations for communication. I am creating world's of my own by searching out repetitive, instinctual marks in other cultures I have studied throughout history and combining them with my own patterns and minimal marks often recorded from a dream. "We are all connected , yet surprisingly separate , time is more fluid, the search and journey we all are on to find elevation is more similar and continuous than we can even know.” Many people throughout history have tapped into the Ultimate source of all creativity and beauty, and through looking at their creations and marks, I desire to cultivate a practice that creates a world of my own to reach the same source."

Everything I create begins with my inspiration by makers and thinkers who have changed our world. By involving them and their works in my process I draw connecting lines across time and space to something greater. Everything I create is made with love and care and the desire to make myself, the individuals who wear and own my works and this world more thoughtful, more unique, more beautiful and ultimately more connected to what really matters.