I often initiate my process by sketching out a concept using representational imagery - the idea beginning with a portrait, or a figure study, a landscape, a string of handwritten text. Other times I begin with music and intuit from the sound itself a sort of interpretive visual imagery, each gesture born of impulse. Then I add to the stew - arranging and redacting, marking and inscribing, layer upon layer. Finally, the information on the page emerges as something altogether different from where I began - both obscured and unified into a new whole.
While I trust my methodology, the results are often unforeseeable - each layer or gesture leading to new expressions. Hence my eagerness to embrace the inevitability and validity of happy windfalls.
This work requires me to commit to an exploration, a deep dive of personal emotions and internal impulses. It is in equal measures frenetic, exhilarating, impatient and therapeutic.
This is the imperative, the reason I do what I do - it’s a compulsory drive to feel and yearn, to strive and, hopefully, to create.
