Creating art has made my life a spiritual path of inner refinement.   Cultivating and expressing spiritual experiences has led my life since 1991, when I seriously began creating art.  The religions of the world and the art they have produced are a huge inspiration to my creative process.  The attempt to transcend personal desires and express divinity is the foundation of all religious art.  Fascination with this concept led to studies of Carl Jung’s theories on the collective unconscious and the way it manifests in the world.   I studied Buddhist meditation and philosophy to further cultivate this type of experience.  Jung’s healing work with art and the intuitive expression that meditation facilitates are the foundations of my creative process.

  Expressing the mind and its refinement led to the use of multiple languages within the language of art.  I utilize language systems from around the world (African, English, Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, etc.) and combine them with elements of art historical language (representational, abstract, pattern, etc.).  This combination of languages is intended to draw the viewer out of conventional language habits.  Written and spoken language generate different responses than visual language, they have the ability to travel with sound as well as light.  The layering of images with text is a chaotic noise in which multiple language forms exist simultaneously.  This combination of pictographic and verbal communication represents an evolution into a world of telepathic communication.  Language, in one form or another, is common to all creatures: our use of it as a tool is a process that must continually evolve.