“Listen… or your tongue will make you deaf”, Native American Saying

This is the newest group of artworks from 2021 to the present. Examinations that we are the natural world, the natural world is us and we are all together in this world - focuses a new investigation in stone, clay and resins.

Small Glimpses, Many Times

Opening March 13, 2020 was my first solo museum show. A five year endeavor to execute a once-in-a-lifetime experiment afforded me by curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Joy Armstrong, at The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center at Colorado College. Needless to say, few people saw the exhibition in our days of Covid-19. A beautiful catalogue is all that remains of the 139 artworks made and exhibited together specifically for this event. As with all things, it allowed me the time to develop my ideas about human perception, societal division and finding a way back to hope.

Artists Statement: An experiment in self-awareness…

We each see the world through a lens of biased personal perception that obscures the experiences, people, and interactions before us. Our biases lead us to isolate each other into small boxes, motivated by a collective fear. There are actors among us who have much to gain by dividing us as individuals, a country, and a global community, by manipulating us into believing things about each other that are mostly untrue.

As an act of social practice, 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. “Small glimpses, many times” is a Buddhist saying that reminds us to wake up and be present. When we practice this teaching, we find that many small glimpses over time can break down patterns of bias and misunderstanding. 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, we could replace it with a more unifying 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 here in this time and place.