ARTIST'S STATEMENT
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Following a 25 year career as a clinical laboratory scientist, I graduated
from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, in 1994. The
last 20 years of my career were spent mostly behind a microscope, and
it was this experience that has profoundly influenced my art. The reversal
of scale and an internal light source allowed for the transformation of
ordinary objects in nature into the world of abstraction.
An artists residency in Spain in the spring of 2004, and the oblique light
of Almeria, introduced the dimension of shadows. The shadow is a mirror
image of an object, illuminating what is neglected and what is a primal
part of the human psyche. Jung refers to the alternation of light and
shadow as “no mans land” and designates it as the personal
unconscious.
It has been my intention to create works of art that allow for the transformation
of the microscopic to the macroscopic, alternating light and shadow and
making what is not ordinarily seen or noticed, visible.
Commission in progress in Marrakech, 2007.
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