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Artist Statement
I am motivated by the abstract power that is apparent throughout the natural world. I interpret what I see in nature in ourselves - perplexing definitions, capturing how many ways there are to look at our environment and to remember that we are all a part of the whole.
I use photos of rocks, cliffs, and hardened surfaces as well as the actual as points of reference. These forms and images are part of our reality, the physical world-reality, the external being met by our waking self. The unconscious may see our personal existence as a part of the immaterial.
The formation of a rock can show how we shape the material of our nature throughout our life.
For me it is remembering what has been forgotten about our connection, unity, and interdependence among all things living and unseen; embracing what is most feared, opening what has been closed, softening what has been hardened.
For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear – both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognize
In nature and the language of the sense
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.
-William Wordsworth
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