Statement
What would it be like if the unseen, intuitive inner realm of experience were as visible as the seen, known physical realm? What traces of mental, emotional or spiritual experiences would we see if we looked into the psyche? These are the questions behind my work.
Turn-of-the-century photographs, handwritten documents and time-worn objects serve as my reference. I see these as evidence of someone or something gone before, but use them to convey a timeless presence and the connection among past, future, spiritual, psychological and physical.
I use overlaying images, handwriting and forms to symbolically represent tracings of internal experience. With varying transparencies I obscure and reveal fragments, and allude to those hidden states that, though present, are not easily observed.
EIDOS
Eidos: “Idea” or the essence of “Form”. According to Plato, the things that are ordinarily perceived in the world are characterized as shadows of the real things, which are not perceived directly.
Mixed Media works in the “Eidos” series are concerned with the multi-dimensionality of individual life experience. I create portals and vistas into the arena where time compresses and expands, and where ideas, emotions and memories appear and disappear.
OPENINGS
Originally titled “Walls with Ways Through”, the “Openings” series attempts to resolve the inner experience with the outer. The perception of obstacles and barriers (walls) contrast with new and expansive insights, expressing the idea that there is “always a way through” (any obstacle), as openings are revealed.
The “walls” in these works are inspired by the richly textured and layered surfaces of decaying building facades and poster-plastered, graffiti-covered walls. While marks on these surfaces record moments of physical experience in time, I use this idea as metaphor for the psychological journey.
PALIMPSEST
Definition:
(1) writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased.
(2) Something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface. Something that has many obvious stages or levels of meaning, development or history.
The word “palimpsest” comes from Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsestos, “scratched or scraped again”), literally meaning “scraped clean and used again”.
I feel this title is apt for my digital art where I layer multiple images, obscuring and revealing fragments of previous layers. Once again, this serves as metaphor for the multi-dimensionality of human experience.