After many years of working mostly in two dimensions in mixed media, I began a few years ago exploring various ways to let the materials speak for themselves, to step off the paper or canvas and inhabit real space. This has led to several bodies of work: small-scale mixed media sculpture using both human-made and natural materials, and work on a flat surface using some combination of paint, collage, ink, graphite and, most recently, textiles.

I live partly in a small coastal village in Connecticut, where the art studio and the garden compete (in a friendly way) for my love and attention, and partly in New York City, where the street life and cultural mix keeps me alive to new possibilities.

For me, the process of bringing together disparate materials, making things that come alive in some way, is an extension and intensification of my daily life, in which I encounter surprising conjunctions and try to make sense of them. I like to allow the dynamics of form, color and image to come together and take on their own identity, inviting me---and hopefully you too--- to explore deeper levels of awareness, beyond easy labeling. In working with different materials I try to follow what they want to do, where they want to go, how they can assert their own reality. Whether I'm working with a pen on paper or putting shapes together, I'm always asking: do you want to go here? to be this? until at some point the answer comes: of course! this is who you are!