Photo by TBK

I make art for many reasons. I make art from many things. I often use what is given, gifted, or found. On paper or hardboard I play in abstractions, finding meditative action in lines and colors and always looking to be surprised by an unfolding image.

Often I am motivated by the need to make concrete or visible pesky echoes and mantras in my head. They repeat, disintegrate, or evolve etched out in graphite or pigments on paper or board or on layered vellum. I invite stories to emerge from single words or short phrases where my personal can stretch to infinite universals, infinite tellings.

My representational work over time is focused around the body, masks, and integration of the body with its environment. I use crude photographic elements to build composite images, both digital and on paper.

I reside in Minneapolis, a city I dearly care for in all of its people, its more-than-human ecosystem, its body of earth, sky, and water. Not to mention muskrats.