An artist must live with her antennae constantly alert for the perturbations of ideas, movements and events most likely to change the facts of our lives --- and then respond fully,  with vital authenticity at the core primal level, with a fearlessness and openness that risks total vulnerability, in order to assert and celebrate our humanity in the times we live.

Presently I am consumed by the quest for, and expression of, the primal.  I seek those images that catch my breath, shattering the icing-glass defenses of media saturated ennui and critical analysis, and in firing my neurons, rock me to my Paleolithic core. 

In side wormhole searchings, perhaps it is imbued with some sort of unconscious recognition of – and hunger for – self-organized complexity, that moment when my pigments and media cohere into a cascade of new meaning, recognizable but not rational.  Perhaps it is based in some neural law(s).  I get lost in trying to explain the self-evidence, immersed mute in the raucous silence of the ineffable, yet dancing the rhythm of my new visual language. 

Alive, my imagination sparks, with the songs of the past sung with the rituals of the present to weave the vision and language of the future.  I sense the kernel of our humanity and environment in the story space of the universe.  And at that moment, the eddies of complexity gift up glissandos and persistent structures to lead us to transcendence.

For the last eight years, I have been immersed in a journey of craft -- intensely studying Old Master restoration technical reports, historical texts, forgers' notes, and of course, the paintings themselves, in the humble but compelled yearning for technique, the limited palette, command of mediums, and mastery of anatomy.  Perhaps it is as a site of resistance, certainly not as a reactionary dogma of beauty.  But rather, I seek greater skills by which to express my vision of narrative figurative art at the birth of this 21st century.  As a child of the sixties while tutored in the grand galleries of the Louvre, my worldview was shaped by the immediacy of photojournalism and colored by abstract expressionism.   The work of contemporary artists such as Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Saville, Cecily Brown, William Kentridge, Jerome Witkin and Jorg Dubin provides me with even more awe at the muses of craft and possibility of art today.