“Small glimpses, many times” is a buddhist term used here to remind us that we can change our minds through slowly replacing habituated thoughts with new thoughts. I’m using this perspective to bring attention to viewers that we don’t really see with our eyes, we see with our habituated minds. This lens of biased personal perception is what obscures the experiences, people and interactions before us. Our biases lead us to isolate each other into small boxes, motivated by a collective fear. Through this body of work, I hope that a beautiful and non-threatening subject - the mountain - may provide an entry through which we can investigate our patterned responses and assumptions.

Over the three years that I have been preparing this body of work, my questions have evolved to ask: What if there was only one way to depict a mountain because of social convention? How would this affect our creativity and sense of reality? How is this boundary self-imposed? I have begun to see the circular nature of my concept- how the repetitive form is not only illustrative of the problem of narrow-minded thinking, but how it can also be the solution to finding the way out.

Medical science tells us that to change our mental patterns, we must carve new thoughts into our brains. What if each time an unconscious assumption about nature or society arose in our minds, it could be replaced with a more open-minded response? By simply changing perspective, could this mountain form become a healing image to help manifest the world we want to see? Through my art, I want to offer an opportunity for collective interrogation into whether our minds are seeing and telling the truth; the truth about ourselves, others and why we’re in this time and place.

Opening March 13, 2020 for only 3 hours, Covid-19 shut it down almost completely for the entire exhibition schedule. I am grateful to the directors at The Colorado Springs Art Museum at Colorado College for extending the schedule and allowing the 1800 square foot show to be opened here and there, when it was safe, until April 24, 2021.