Artist Statement

My practice encompasses a range of media: drawing, collage, painting and sculpture. Reflecting emotions, this work exists within a threshold between inner and outer, the protective and the permeable. It considers home as a space both ordinary and special, with its humble sounds that shape us, its spaces that shelter and hold, and its capacity to transform the mundane into the sacred.

Dark areas – visual or literal crevices – are inspired by the cochlea, the place where sound enters the body, a portal to the realm of inner life that reflects the body's inherent permeability;  the body too is a home. 

Through visualization of sound, my work reflects the felt aural experience of a particular inhabited space: the clank of the furnace turning over, music from a passing car, a storm’s wind against sturdy walls. Color is atmospheric, expressing the joy I feel in solitude, when I can be present with the quiet sounds that surround me. These aural indices, their familiarity, become shapes whose strength reflects the value of these signifiers of well-being. Interdependent with feelings, sound can nourish. Ever present, it eludes direct observation and like home, feels internal and external at once.