I have been an artist since a very early age. I started off around the age of nine as a ballet dancer.  I studied dance, seriously, until I was eighteen. It taught me expression, movement, timing, intuition, and discipline. At the same time, I started to paint and draw in school. Both art and dance have always been with me. I make art because I’m a performer. 

My art is a representation of a performance that is not viewed live. It is a private act. There are many stops and starts with segments of “writing” that vary in length. 

What inspires me to make this art is the satisfaction and sense of closure I get when it is complete, and the enjoyment I have during the process of making each piece. There are many other ideas that inspired me when I was developing this style. Some of them are Taoism, design, racing, driving, dancing, philosophy, mathematics, history and art history. 

There is a compulsion. I have a strong need to make meditative color field drawings.  I record time through a simple mark-making style. I delineate space. I slowly accumulate lines in a weaving pattern/non-pattern across an area of paper.  Pattern/non-pattern means there is a subtle variation in the direction of each unique line.  Yet it is the same signature mark repeated over again and again. A sort of script occurs while “writing”.  Each “sentence” is a few inches long. The “sentences” start from different points and crisscross, creating a rhythmic and consistent net which grows to the borders I have established along the periphery of the paper. I am using different ink pigments for each area of color. Compositions may include stripes, shapes, or two colors fading into one another. Within the past four years I have introduced stencils into the work. I was interested in negative space but also conveying narratives and recognizable images. The result of these static color field drawings is a calming quality.  What I produce is beautiful, mysterious, and monumental. 

These drawings take time and are all produced by hand. I live with these drawings, and I raise these drawings.