For me it’s a wondrous heap of possibilities.

- Agnès Varda, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

Stitching together zones of color and constellations of images that slip into one another, I work in paint and collage to make maplike pictures populated with the likes of flowers, faces, fruit – a mélange of symbols and objects far-flung and familiar, ambiguous and specific. Confronting desire and distraction at every turn, the viewer contends with the scintillating and the confusing, and where distinctions between “high and low” break down to form exquisitely playful quiltlike compositions. 

As a self-taught painter, I channel the curiosity, exploration, and fearlessness of the kindergarten students I have been teaching for nearly 20 years. Interlaying painting, drawing and collage, I work in a stream-of-consciousness style. Each entry point and viewing experience reveals new linkages and surprises. As if sifting through a drawer of mementos, some remembered and others forgotten, we meander through landscapes where sense-making stops and experience and experiment are the only true guides. 

Most recently, I have been experimenting with hanging works that I make from scavenged paper and other translucent materials, a highly personal and poetic merging of my daily life and my art practice. Designed to be presented so that light can filter through them - hung against a window, on a clothing line, in an  entryway - these pieces become spaces of their own, where in addition to viewing them head on, the viewer can also walk around them, something like meandering through the pleasures and bizarrities of the community garden.

In contrast to direct meaning and linearity, I depict the discombobulating experience of occupying multiple physical and metaphysical realms at once: living and nonliving, visible and invisible, present and past. Ultimately the paintings are both humorous and serious, portraits of a child’s imagining of adulthood or an adult’s rendering of childhood.