in my encaustic, oil, and print work, i layer up and dig down to find a hidden path to meaning. repetitive shapes and marks cross the surfaces like shorthand messages; they cover what lies underneath-"the play within a play." what is on the surface is not the only story.

adding and scraping away layers of color and texture express the art object as a reliquary of personal and universal information. sometimes the visual narrative unfolds like the leaves of a book or a diptych, with a spine/vertebrae; sometimes a grid underlies the forms. each mark's independent energy and translucent color fields express states of mind, matter and surprise.

greco-roman painting, sculpture and drawing, asian calligraphy and joseph albers' color theories influence me. lately i have been captivated by the illumination and levitation of the light, water and landscape in southwest washington state.

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