1.  How do we see and feel more deeply? 

I make art that tries to respond to this question.

2. How do we respond to the world around us in order to allow us to hold more, see more, feel more?

This is the capacity that leads to better understanding, openness, and compassion.

3. How can I utilize a visual medium that affects me more like the natural world, like music?

Relying on color and non-representational shapes; a call-response play between outward stimuli and inward interpretation

4. How do we do this in a less didactic way…offering a key that opens many doors of the viewer’s choosing?

I have a life that is defined, in many ways, by tragedy and loss…

but there is beauty also,

5. and how do we create pathways, doorways to this beauty?

Through a sort of alchemy of hope, joy, or desire; the visual cues to take our thoughts and feelings to a more generative and expansive place.

6. How do we coax meaning from the world around us, from the entire spectrum of our human experience?

It is through an attempt to unravel ourselves from all the things we thought we knew.