Bloomington, IL is my home base; it is where I have a job, own a home, and raise my children. In my studio, I often complete work I started in other places. I also start works I may finish while traveling. When I go to a residency, I don’t want to feel like a frustrated writer staring at a blank page. I much prefer to have even one visual element to have something to respond to and get started.

When I work in my Bloomington studio, I often make smaller works that are byproducts of larger ones. I also turn myself more deliberately toward the formal elements of my imagery. Just as I compare and relate types of landscape, I often collate and categorize forms by placing them into opposing camps: fast or slow, solid or particulate, square or curved, impulsive or meditative.  At times these forms of conflicting character simply exist together in a space and stand in contradiction to one another.  Perhaps they read as different places, genders, or moments in time.  Other times they relate, react, acknowledge one another, collide, veer apart, or perform an ambiguous task.  My imagery is evidence of an interior dialogue. It is also an effort to tread a line between elegant and awkward, deliberate and intuitive, skilled and naïve.