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Artist Statement 8/25/05

At first glance my work seems widely disparate in material, form, and content. If you look deeper, I think you'll find various themes and common directions eking their way to the surface. There is by no means a simple direction, something that can be summed up in a neat statement, a sellable series to be collated and squarely fit into a genre. It has been a twisty road to where I find myself today. It is a twisty road to try and explain what I see and feel, that what informs my honest attempts to make "art".

I use quotes for this word often, as I try to find art in many places. It might be "crafting" a simple earring to match a client's tattoo, or perhaps forming a small tea bowl from wild clay found in the local hills, full of rocks and impurities, wobbly, and rough. It might be screwing mass produced foul tasting energy drink cans to a board that I have been painting on for weeks. It might be hammering a ten foot steel pipe for the next four hours and then deciding not to use it. I think "true" art demands to spring forth, without thought of market price point and consumability. And I am grateful when it does.

I do not cook with recipes, or measuring cups. I usually estimate measurements, color mixes, proportions. I hope the "loose" nature of my process is evident in my work. I prefer to not buff out scratches. I would rather not discard a piece of glass if it has a bubble in it. I may leave an errant brush stroke, a patch of rust, a finger print. I might dig my hair from the shower drain and use it. Perfection is something to strive for, but not attainable in this human-mauled world. This is the discussion that I find interesting, and that I cannot seem to escape.