artist statement
My prints, mostly hand printed styrofoam reliefs, are improvisational explorations of line quality, shape relationships, tonal intensities, and color defined by the reuse and transformation of everyday and discarded objects.
Since 2007 I’ve been relief handprinting abstract landscapes, still lifes and figurative works from objects; discarded and found. My printing plates are supermarket styrofoam trays that food is packaged in.
Each print is made from only the objects I find during a day and a place, wherever and whenever that may be. It is a record of that precise day and place.
I have no preconceived image in mind. The process reuses and transforms the objects into images which are mysterious, full of movement, rich in color and sometimes whimsical. It is whatever emerges from the juxtaposition of the objects pressed into the styrofoam plate and from the color palette and tools of that day.