Statement

For years I worked to craft a story of how each of my bodies of work is connected, how one flows from the other, in the way Western artists are expected to do via their artist statement. I have come to chafe at this confining, orderly way of thinking, of this overemphasis on “having a story” (or worse yet - a fucking brand). I went along with putting myself in this box I felt required to build. I now see it as a suffocating contrivance. The truest representation of what’s happening in the studio, for me, I’ve come to recognize, is allowing my searching mind to follow the brush and the pen where it wants to go at a particular given moment in time. How and why creative things come into being is a deeply private, personal, individual process. Being an artist and a poet I strive to honor the vicissitudes of my emotions, the fleeting perceptions of my heart/mind, the uncertainty of the mental process, and the constancy of change.