It wouldn’t be too far off the mark to
say my work deals with the juxtaposition of innocence to knowledge,
primitive to technocracy, youth to experience. I like to set
things in motion and observe the tones, resonance and harmonies
that result.
Over the years I have worked as a laborer, a
carpenter, a cabinetmaker, a mother and found that everything
we do teaches us something about our art. In fact, art tends
to be a concentration of what has gone before. And, if it
represents, in the end, our inner dialogues; well? That’s
interesting isn’t it?
In my furniture and mixed media work, I use
found materials. Sometimes I manufacture these “found
materials”. I use the skills I developed working in
the trades in conjunction with experience, experiment and
a lifetime of knocking around in the “Art World”,
that strange and other place.
When I’m assembling my mixed media
pieces, I spend a lot of time imagining that I’m a handyman/craftsperson
existing in a primitive place down river from the city, assembling
the detritus from another culture as it washes ashore –
trying to make sense of the puzzle pieces and making something
new and useful from the rejected bits of another place and
time. I am a folk artist, reassembling the flotsam and jetsam
in a way that makes sense to my wit and experience and pays
homage to the things I love.
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