Outside / Ambient / In

The experience of living in rural New Mexico has had a profound impact on my artistic and spiritual life. While this work is insistently abstract with no direct descriptive references, it is my hope that the work, in some way, evokes the light, open space, wind, and ever-changing presence of the New Mexico landscape, and a sense of being both within and a part of that presence.

These works begin in assemblages that explore a dialog between the random and systemic. However, the primary intent is to construct an atmosphere and space that makes itself known as a slowly unfolding order that is understood more fully through the body than the mind. I am interested in offering the possibility of the recognition of a state of transience as an act of awareness. These works evolve out of an attempt to realize a merging of abstract constructs of mind with direct sensation and memory held in the body.

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Transient Equilibrium

Each of these works stem from a search for an intimate but elusive image; one that is experienced as an entanglement of memory, imagination, structural order, and the immediately sensual. These images are found through an improvisational process that intentionally courts an ambiguous dialog between both random and systemic structures, always with a search for forms slowly unfolding an uncertain identity and a tenuous order.

​Meaningfulness presents itself in small fleeting moments of intuition. It is a
recognition of a specific state of order in flux, always on the periphery, a phase transition from thought to feeling and back again, a transient state of equilibrium and understanding, a dance of mind and body. These small moments are ultimately the subject and ambition for my work.