Art

GALLERY 1: LOOKING UP

I have always found beauty and inspiration in what we call insignificant items. Take an ordinary railroad signal for instance, we know its there but do we stop and study the shapes, angles of the crossing guards, the way the sun plays with the shadows off the warning lights? We most likely stroll right by without even a thought, but if we take a look around our environment we maybe surprised what we discover hovering above our heads, a whole new world, a world filled with life and beauty, and all we have to do is stop and look up. So I take pleasure in inviting you to reflect on the life and beauty of these everyday objects, and stop to look up at our world thru my eyes.

GALLERY 2: MUSIC

GALLERY 3: MATCH STICKS, SCULPTURES

I have always found beauty and inspiration in small and seemingly insignificant items. Take an ordinary wooden match for instance; it’s not generally an object that invokes amazement or even a moment of thought. A match is just almost too tiny to bother considering, and at first glance, a collection of matches seems like just a bunch of wooden sticks. But closer inspection reveals that each one is an individual. And a burnt match, one that has fulfilled its purpose, is a match that has been shaped and formed in a way that is unique to it alone. The burning produces features, character, and personality, just as the experiences that we undergo in life forms our unique physical and psychological traits. In creating a match that is roughly 96 times larger than life-size, I invite the viewer to enjoy and contemplate the way that an ordinary object can become a metaphor for the human experience.

GALLERY 4: CACTUS

I grew up eating cactus, now I just paint them. I am enjoying the different shapes they take on thru out the year, they seem to be more abstract in late spring / early summer due to the fruit it bears, then in late summer the fruit fall off often leaving the cactus looking sad. I have been capturing the early morning sun to paint the cactus, because of the shadows it cast on the other blades of the cactus making it even more abstract. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I painted them. now I’m hungry I think I will go and eat some cactus now.