Artist Statement

As a multidisciplinary artist, my medium is my message. I create layered, dimensional artworks of cut paper, painted plywood, and acrylic that engage distinct ways of knowing and seeing. Each piece is both structure and lens: a material record of process and a space for perceptual inquiry.

My work is grounded in the principle that what we do shapes what we know. Phenomena are brought forth and disclosed by practices—and those practices, in turn, shape perception and experience. This link between making and meaning is central to my work, inviting both self-awareness in creation and participatory presence in contemplation. Each piece asks to be viewed from different angles, as both whole and in parts: a single image yielding to shifting fields of understanding.

Earlier works, comprised of cut and stacked layers of paper and plywood, explore creative unfolding and change over time. Like tree rings or geological strata, the works are artifacts of repetition and change, each layer a moment in a larger transformation. These pieces mirror the cinematic technique of deep focus, allowing viewers to see each component clearly while also stepping back and “zooming out” to perceive the broader arc of becoming.

In counterpoint, my current work, Suspensions, zooms in—shifting from the accumulation of time to its suspension. Where earlier works layered transformation through material sequence, these pieces hold a single moment still, softening focus to expand into presence. This open-ended, ongoing body of dimensional, wall-mounted artworks integrates subject and predicate, medium and message—each one a meditation on the process of its making. Composed of hand-painted, laser-cut plexiglass and wood, the suspended forms hover above painted or prepared grounds on stainless steel pins, creating layered relationships between figure and field, light and shadow, solidity and motion. 

The initial works within this broader structure gesture toward light, inviting a softened gaze and subtle shift in focus—holding space for the luminous not-yet. The compositions abstract the experience of seeing points of light through a narrowed depth of field: peripheral glimpses made fully present and sculpturally articulate. Matte, translucent, and iridescent finishes shift with the light, creating a perceptual field that is both grounded and ephemeral. As viewers move, the work responds, offering not merely an image but an open-ended encounter with light, color, and presence—attuned, resonant, and awake to the radiant unknown.