I am a pluralistic artist that loves to challenge the perspectives of everyday objects or actions. For me, art is a ritualistic curiosity providing me with a flexible structure that I can use for trying to understand life. Working with my hands is both communication and meditation. By transforming familiar or overlooked materials into an artistic language, I encourage viewers to contemplate their own surroundings and to recognize creativity as something accessible and woven into daily life.
Environmental awareness is the underlying dialogue I have in my mind most of the time. I believe this stems from having been raised on a regenerative farm propagated for family use. This cultivative knowledge melded with city culture when I left Missouri and moved to Barcelona in 2000. I immersed myself in the famous artistic uniqueness of one of the most amazing cities in the world. This allowed me to form an experiential knowledge of art by indulging in any easily available creativity: from my neighbourhood’s (previously free) expo hall of La Pedrera to the early years of freely accessible art in the entrance hall of La MACBA to the underground energy of street artists or culturally minded people salvaging abandoned buildings into creative cultural hubs. These affordable experiences taught me that art can be colloquially created and accessible as everyday actions.
Ultimately, my work aims to offer viewers an invitation to notice the potential within the ordinary. I am engaged with the very important dialog about social and mental health and how we need to find ways for art to be attainable to anyone. Rather than a single message, there is a persistent challenge embedded in my work to expand the definition of art beyond conventional ideas. In doing so, I hope to create space for connection, reflection, and inclusive understandings of what art can be.