ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I have always seen faces in random things (the official word for this is “pareidolia” which sounds more like a disease than a blessing), but it’s something I’ve enjoyed all my life—I see sleeping giants in rock formations; a wink in the folds of a crumpled up towel; a cat in spilled tea.

In my art, I take this inclination a step further, deliberately creating textured chaos, then making correlations and coaxing out whimsical and dreamlike forms and figures. To eliminate control and increase happy accidents, I often use found objects to apply or remove the paint and then shape what appears into meaning. The resulting folkloric subjects are often ambidextrous—featuring faces within faces within figures.

By taking generous creative liberties and playing with logic-defying juxtapositions, I explore the relationship between chance and order. In an intersection between modern expressionism, outsider art, and surrealism, the final paintings are multi-layered, embracing the unexpected and unpredictable, challenging the viewer to seek out their personal interpretation.