Artist’s Statement

An exploration in texture

Our lives are layers of interactions, intersections, and conversations with constant demands on our attention, money, and appetites—different forms of consumption. What we eat. What we read. What we buy. What we see. These ideas find their way into my work.

My collage art is made using found objects and ephemera. Cardboard from a case of cat food or beer. Trash discovered in a parking lot. Preselected colors from completed paint-by-numbers kits. There is no master plan. What gets used is left to chance. It arrives via mail, traveling, and whatever I stumble upon living my life each day.

I’m influenced by many different artists but find myself returning to the design work of David Carson and Vaughan Oliver and the collage art of Robert Motherwell and Mike McQuade.

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