Artist’s Statement:

My art is strongly influenced by my surroundings as a sense of place. As a personal, engaged experience, a sense of place becomes a constantly morphing transformation of identity relative to past and present. My works are primarily divided between personalized graphic interpretations of landscapes and cityscapes. Common formal elements linking various series involve altered perceptions of light and shadows. Architectural structures and natural elements are shown affected by light and/or atmospheric or weather conditions. Larger landscape drawings depict the local environ where the imagery of new growth is seen in relationship to decaying structures which serve as a metaphor for the cycle of life. Imbedded in some of these works are physics equations that represent a theory to explain the origins of life. A recent series represents a personal response to the pandemic that is expressed with the effects of light as cast shadows.