The Psychescapes project focuses on creating motifs, symbols and scenarios that represent emotions, ongoing and universal (human) or individualized, experientially induced. Instead of giving a verbal response to express feeling, these images present an illustration, however abstract, that exposes the mood. In some ways, the pieces are anti-narrative in that emotions are not explained through a story of circumstances, but instead as pictograms.
For example, a grouping of sticks, flotsam, may symbolize a sense of foreboding, of something closing in on oneself, a pushing into with nowhere to go. A grouping of flowing stripes nestling perfectly into one another expresses free flowing creativity and energy acting upon itself and growing, but these forms, wrapped within a rope fence, may suggest a lock down on that freedom, a containment.
The Psychescapes project focuses on creating motifs, symbols and scenarios that represent emotions, ongoing and universal (human) or individualized, experientially induced. Instead of giving a verbal response to express feeling, these images present an illustration, however abstract, that exposes the mood. In some ways, the pieces are anti-narrative in that emotions are not explained through a story of circumstances, but instead as pictograms.
For example, a grouping of sticks, flotsam, may symbolize a sense of foreboding, of something closing in on oneself, a pushing into with nowhere to go. A grouping of flowing stripes nestling perfectly into one another expresses free flowing creativity and energy acting upon itself and growing, but these forms, wrapped within a rope fence, may suggest a lock down on that freedom, a containment.
Process and Communicate, ink and colored pencil, 15" x 18", 2012
Inner Dialogue, ink and colored pencil, 15" x 18", 2012
Music and Humanity, woodcut, 30" x 30", 2011
Flotsam in Yellow and Grey, ink and colored pencil, 14" x 17", 2009
Taking in the Masses, etching and colored pencil, 12" x 18", 2010
The Restructuring of Death, etching and colored pencil, 12" x 18", 2010
Anxiety, etching, 9" x 12", 2010
Intruder, etching, 9" x 12", 2010
Discussions on Fear, etching, 9" x 12", 2010
Blockaded Inside Dream Travel, etching, 9" x 12", 2010
Anderson Ranch - Installation: Relational Bonfire, wood, paint and fabric, 66" x 52" x 64", 2010
Anderson Ranch - Installation: Relational Bonfire/Overhead view, wood, paint and fabric, 66" x 52" x 64", 2010