I make art about life, from human to animal to microbial.  I work with a variety of surfaces, anything from cardboard to linen, and I apply any media, from found matter, like mica and dried wood, to traditional materials.  I experiment with material in unending combinations and applications.  Mounding, grinding, scraping, scarring, assembling and soaking are only a few methods I use in the creation of the image.  Recently I’ve taken these processes outside within nature.  I leave canvases and paper to the elements, putting them in direct paths of streams, burying in the snow and ice all winter, hanging from trees, and so forth.  Animal encounters through wooded walks spark inspiration.  I think of the  experience of meeting and I depict the external representation of that animal as well as their internal essence.  What gives a deer, for example, its deer-ish qualities?  And what have we as a culture, both currently, historically, and pre-historically, applied to this symbol of a deer?  These are the types of questions I ask myself when I make art.