United States, 1964
Art has been and is my path of least resistance and it is my life's blood. From earning a BFA at Eastern Michigan University and then a MFA at the University of Washington in Printmaking and Drawing, to what kept me sane during several years of unrelenting depression, the creation of artwork is where I can address and process myself and the world around me.
In 2022, I learned that I am autistic, and in retrospect much of my struggles and perhaps brilliance in my college years pursuing art has made a lot more sense. It turns out that I am just very neurodivergent and tend to worry about too many things, too much of my time.
And so I make art. I like "to play". I enjoy "the beautiful". But I'm also interested in the non-realistic. I attempt to use distortions and "the unexpected" to build stories that focus upon invoking emotions, and often speak of contrast, of struggle between life and death.