Not knowing it when I began, I needed to build a society of images capable of revelation and restoration.  Finding one image at a time, I am replacing an inherited spoken language of translating experience through words. Most of my time is spent in the company of the inarticulate. As my hand brain engages with materials, one shape or form leads to another. I watch as one material image after the next gives back weight and meaning to corrupted language lost through rote tradition, abuse of power, and manipulation. It turns out language can be tested by an expansive visual world. Words can be restored, recovering what had long gone missing.

Magnolia, the Lotus of Trees

Observing leaves, at first I doubt they are persimmon~

Looking at the blossoms, I doubt they are lotus.

How fortunate there are no fixed forms~

this tree has no comparison.       Hyesim (1178-1234) first Zen Master Poet in Korea

Individually, my paintings, sculptures, drawings, and video artwork all explore paradox and meaning embedded in visual forms that contrast with one another. I use abstraction and figuration, curved lines and straight ones, transparency and opacity, control and freedom, simplicity and complexity, along with color and the visual neutrality of a gallery space to realize a material world rooted in both nature and mind. 

"Measures taken in time, need both the circle and the line." From the video artpiece: Touch and Go ~JS