MFA Yale University School of Art
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I am a diarist artist, and for the past 30 years I have used my daily personal, psychological and familial experiences as a framework to speak most directly about meaning, vitality, mortality, love and the texture of human interaction. Trouble at work? Let’s start there and make a drawing and sketch the problem out in space… I find my best ideas for projects through a daily regimen of drawing, photography and writing. As the ideas evolve I begin to invest in them materially through layered painted surfaces or even built environments in the hope of locating a nexus of meaning upon which to build a larger narrative. I work in a variety of media while developing any body of work. I find it helpful when ideas that exist as planar scribbles can also exist as three dimensional constructions. I love it when a conversation between two forms of the same idea sheds new light on the evolving narrative. Against this backdrop of material possibility I try to make a meaningful connection between a work’s image and its process of becoming. |