Soul Searching
Making art, to me, is both refreshing and terrifying. It gives me a chance to construct meaning and to release an array of emotions. It is a means to celebrate and rejoice or grieve and offer sympathy. It also offers a framework to pose questions and search for answers in myself.
I seem to not be able to stop looking, searching, and questioning my life experiences. I try to express what I am thinking and develop a tangled web of lines that become quite dizzying. I work to see the ways that I can connect my thoughts and ideas through the art I am making. I think aloud in my art. As a result, my art says some things that I would never reveal verbally and allowing myself to be so vulnerable in this way can be scary.
The process of making art is like therapy to me. I spend a great deal of time in my studio developing and reflecting on my prints. Making connections, visualizing, predicting, summarizing, and finding main ideas are some of the biggest components in influencing my personal artwork. Along the way, I discover, learn, and grow. My pieces go through constant revision, because I approach them much like I approach life. Art mimics life after all.
I base my art on recognizable subject matter, but it is almost like my subject matter has a natural capacity to corrupt the forms that I create. I try to create a relationship between abstract and figurative art. I try to look at things in a different way and I get enveloped in a variation of lines and color. My understanding of multiple and different forms of interpretation has grown from this approach.
Everything in my environment influences me. I consider several ideas and try to use bits and pieces of each in my artwork. I like the idea of printmaking because it allows me to draw, paint, print, and even sculpt. I create artwork with a lot of emotion and I really consider my pieces to be products of the heart. I hope you enjoy my work and take some time to understand it.
I seem to not be able to stop looking, searching, and questioning my life experiences. I try to express what I am thinking and develop a tangled web of lines that become quite dizzying. I work to see the ways that I can connect my thoughts and ideas through the art I am making. I think aloud in my art. As a result, my art says some things that I would never reveal verbally and allowing myself to be so vulnerable in this way can be scary.
The process of making art is like therapy to me. I spend a great deal of time in my studio developing and reflecting on my prints. Making connections, visualizing, predicting, summarizing, and finding main ideas are some of the biggest components in influencing my personal artwork. Along the way, I discover, learn, and grow. My pieces go through constant revision, because I approach them much like I approach life. Art mimics life after all.
I base my art on recognizable subject matter, but it is almost like my subject matter has a natural capacity to corrupt the forms that I create. I try to create a relationship between abstract and figurative art. I try to look at things in a different way and I get enveloped in a variation of lines and color. My understanding of multiple and different forms of interpretation has grown from this approach.
Everything in my environment influences me. I consider several ideas and try to use bits and pieces of each in my artwork. I like the idea of printmaking because it allows me to draw, paint, print, and even sculpt. I create artwork with a lot of emotion and I really consider my pieces to be products of the heart. I hope you enjoy my work and take some time to understand it.