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 PERCEPTIONS AND MEMORIES - 2012 My work documents our journey to self-knowledge and moral development
in the context of cultural references. I am interested in worldwide
behaviors and trends that mirror the private and personal needs of
social progress. It feels like a natural progression to relate
individual experiences to large scale, international conversations. The
same issues reveal themselves –financial security, interdependence or
dependence, victimization, authority and control. Specifically, my work
explores the way these issues present themselves through familial story
telling or indoctrination. The story is told from one perception and is
heard from yet another. Some place in between our identities our formed.
The question I ask is, “What is your story and how or why do you need
to tell it?”
 My process is one of research. While my work always includes and
revolves around the traditional methods of painting and drawing, I like
to explore more conceptual forms of communication. I am often compelled
to use a mixed media process that can involve drawing, collage and
installation. Incorporating common or primitive materials, such as hay,
jute, tea, and coffee, represent a connection and understanding of our
past. Transparent materials such as wax and tracing paper, and acetate
symbolize the complicated layers through which we view our lives.
 The addition of text exposing words from a personal conversation, or
in a diary type format, reveal an intimate and authentic identification
with the viewer. In some of my work, word and image are linked. In other
pieces words take over completely. In the piece, “Dirty Laundry,” the
viewer is witness to personal journals - lines of text on tea dyed paper
hanging by straight pins from jute. In this piece, it is important to
me to ensure that a comprehensible message is actually communicated. I
believe language can be intricately tied up with issues of possession
and power. Language in my work makes it more firmly connected to popular
culture.
 I derive inspiration from representational painters: Lucien Freud,
Paula Rego, Eric Fischl, Julie Heffernan, and William Beckman. I am
intrigued with mixed media, installation and performance artists such as
Arturo Herrera, Leonardo Drew, Barbara Kruger, Magdalena Jetelova and
Jenny Holzer. I also am interested in photographers Rineke Dijkstra,
Shirin Neshat and Gillian Wearing. Each continues to influence my
passion for artistic methodologies and contextual development.
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