Emergence

I explore the hypothetical possibilities of this universe as they occur to me. These potential worlds arise in dreams, fantasies, and through the process of applying media to a surface. It can be anything, it can be anywhere; it comes from anything and it comes forth anywhere. Organs in a fecund space suspended by arteries contain bodies, body parts break through or even climb out.

As an art student, I struggled to pin down a subject matter that came naturally to me. The usual tropes like figure, landscape or non-objective were always forced. My oil painting professor at Sac State taught us her technique of prepping a surface for painting with many layers, and it was during this process that I began to find forms that intrigued me. Instead of planning a composition to meet an assignment’s requirements, I simply began applying thin layers of paint and bringing forth the forms that appeared before me in the shapes and textures of the paint. This was the birth of the womb dimension. As I began to see the organs in that space as portals between worlds, my interest shifted from not only depicting dimensions we cannot see, but the travel from one to the other.