When making art, I am often inspired by a concept or narration. I am drawn to the domestic and to the germination of ideas, people, places and our shared human experience. I have overlayed my daily life with a template of story- a form of personal mythology. Examining the ordinary allows me to watch it reveal something extraordinary. Our everyday happenings contain moments that slip into what will become private fable. We all tell stories about ourselves and the things that happen to us and around us. I give form to those ideas through my art.
I also use my art making to understand another time in history, a place where I haven’t been, or experiences I have not had. I turn to the tales written in that time, place and by those people. It is there I find both escape and connection. My curiosity and desire to understand what I don’t know can find respite in the bits of story I acquire. Those pieces and their images find a way into my work and help form new connections and ideas.