My current work is in oil and graphite on paper or on wood and centers on elements of the human figure, transfigured. I begin with figures in fairly conventional incarnations, then add and subtract. The figure metamorphoses into roots, seeds, bones in soil, objects floating in water, ghosts dropping out of sky. They become biomorphic forms with missing parts, implying some history. There is a sense of the figures having been there but now, mutated, they are a dialogue of shapes anchored in their environments with horizons or shadows.
My influences include organic forms, roots, bones, fossils, Egon Schiele, Tom Waits and my grandmother whose ninety-four years spanning continents, world wars, and loss of sight distilled her life to just a few tragically mysterious and beautiful shapes.
