Artist Statement

Every day  is a new mini-beginning, generally faced with optimism, new possibilities, new things to accomplish.

I suppose I was gifted with a high level of awareness, observing my environment in all kinds of ways with most of my senses.

“Me and the (natural) world around me, everything is connected— I watch the birds and they watch me”.

Thoughts and ideas are usually churning along, which makes for lots of triggers that may just come and go and be forgotten, but some stick, bringing an image to my mind’s eye or a  feeling to the surface.

It can happen at any time and anywhere; during a conversation, while reading a poem or maybe hearing just a word or a piece of news.

Music brings back memories or past experiences, a scent can do the same, even fabric, its texture, its color, who wears it, who wore it, the combination…

Sometimes, the past surfaces in the present that way, an association now  that leads me back or leads me to an idea, or both.

Whatever that trigger, when something touches me profoundly it becomes an inspiration.

Some medium will present itself, so I can zone in and plan to express  it.  Then I share it.