Artist Statement

     Walking quietly through the forest of collected "found objects" that was my father's studio, I learned from him, the wonderful lesson that all earthly things hold magic; they have potential to become something entirely different through imagination. My mother showed me the metamorphosis of an object through thoughtfulness. A person's artistic voice and personal composition can turn even the simplest act into something precious, a treasure that can be gifted to another or kept for one’s own as a point of self reflection.  For me art will always be just that, otherworldly expressions communicating from the mysterious depths of our minds and cherished memories captured in creation.

"Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life,

to make something that is fragmented-

which is what fear and anxiety do to a person-




into something whole." 


                                             -Louise Bourgeois 

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