What does a day in your art practice look like?My studio practice truly involves a lot of reading and thinking before I make any moves. I like to say ideas are percolating in my mind, sometimes for months (or longer!), until things are really resolved conceptually. Since my practice is primarily video and photo and installation, it can manifest in […]
How do your ideas develop? Sometimes my ideas just spring into my mind like flashes of an image or an overall feeling that I am trying to capture…as if catching a hummingbird or butterfly of an idea or concept. There are times that ideas can start to feel like the beginning of an obsession or an attraction that my mind […]
What would life be like without art?I try not to imagine what life would be like without art because I know I won’t like it…Why you asked? Life would be boring if one cannot create whether visual or performing art. It will like waking up to a static world. Art has a purpose in this life so I can only […]
How has personal experience influenced your creativity?Personal experience has always been the raison d’etre of my creative and artistic life. From the start, my work has always been autobiographical and a vehicle for self-expression. My goal has always been to convey the universal aspect of my personal experiences in a way that would make the viewer feel the emotions,or the […]
What inspires you?An indefatigable drive to create problems for myself to solve, and in that, inspiration can be found in anything or any moment. The flickering shadow of a small junco’s wing in the morning sun, a contractor’s post on Instagram or a multi-faceted visual from a deep meditation. What is the hardest part of creating your art?Currently, with my […]
What does a day in your art practice look like?I have a day job so my art practice begins right after work. I come home and join an online zoom art & meditation meeting and dive right into whatever is lying about on my desk. There is something always in the works. The weekends are when I get to really […]
What does a day in your art practice look like? My artistic process has an organic feel and it’s very unscripted. Each day is different in terms of hours, inspiration and media used and I try not to control, order or regiment my art process in any way. If I dreamt something or if I wrote a poem or if […]
What would life be like without art?I think of that question in two different ways. My life without art wouldn’t be meaningful. Art gives me direction and a path to investigate my life and my self. When I was working 9 to 5, my job gave me a false sense of structure and meaning. But I knew that, while it […]
How has personal experience influenced your creativity? My personal experiences, and how I interpret them, are reflected in every painting I make. As a woman, I often wonder how my life might be different if I had been born a male or if women enjoyed the same privileges that men do today. My recent work is heavily inspired by my […]
