Having been an art teacher, woodcarver and a printmaker in my formative years, I
emerged as a painter, joyously overwhelmed by color and searching for pattern.
Color and pattern are everywhere, but the seeing and interpretation of them are
different for each of us. Pattern in nature is primal to me – which fuels my desire to
find a glimmer of logic in vastly complicated, confusing and tumbled landscapes.
On July 23rd of 2018 I witnessed a 10’ flash flood tear past my Santa Fe home, a tsunami in a quiet valley, washing downstream animals, debris and tumbling boulders, leaving behind a raw, reordered landscape. My work went from the universal to the personal, understanding that our presumed control over the environment had evolved to a “new norm.”
A literary and art journal
from the MFA community at
Antioch University Los Angeles.
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