Artist Statement

Art has been my deepest language since early childhood. I am a biophilic artist: the energy of animals, forests, oceans, all of nature’s infinite variety, pattern and internal organization fascinates me as does the diversity within cooperative evolution. To arrive at a final image, I follow my body not a cognitive plan.

Art demands full use of my senses as well as my patience and a kind of plunge into the mess; a trust of this process to bring out the wildness of a being or a place or myself and to portray its very breath.

Through my art, I want you to feel what I experience, to see as I see, to sense the vibration and be moved by it. In Deaf culture, we call it DeVia art (Deaf, view, image, art) reflecting life as People of the Eye. Beyond sound, feel life. Art is communication.