I’ve been accused my whole life of being shy and kind of quiet, especially in group settings.  But if I’m not quiet, I’ll miss the stuff people are talking about and it’s what other people are saying that ends up in my work.

I have been listening to people’s stories for as long as I can remember. Like the story my Grandmother told me about my Great Aunt Hilda stealing a car as a young girl.  Well there were only 2 Model Ts owned in town at that time so it was an honest mistake.

But not all the stories I hear are cute and fun.  Some are very sad and some are just devastating.  We all go through life experiencing the good and the bad.  Sometimes we don’t even participate in the story.  We just stand on the curb watching and listening.  Then we share the stories as though we actually participated in the reality. By the time I hear a story and incorporate it into an art piece, the truth has become fiction.  But this fiction does not become an epic or a saga.  You can stir the imagination with just a few words.

In my work I strive for 3 things: 

1. A Story is Being Told • often the words accompany the art.

2. A Point of Reference • something the viewer easily recognizes.

3. Conceptual Representation • to make the viewer think, discuss and draw their own conclusions.

I enjoy the building process of my work best of all and I try to enlighten people with unique, two and three dimensional, art forms.

But it is the story being told that is at the forefront of my work.