TwistOfUnique

Me? I’ve always had the unique and fortunate experience of being a juxtaposed artist; a gal striving to be to be too many things at once. I am an Artist. I am a Sociologist. I am a Land Architect. How did I get this way? Well there is a story to all things, this is mine:

I am an artist: born as creature full of curiosity. I tend to run my fingertips over the nooks and crannies of life, finding my answers and inspirations from the poetry of experience; tasting, touching, living and feeling emotions, and celebrating those ‘living moments’ through the creation of artwork.

I am a Sociologist; educated as a lifelong question seeker. I already know the answer. That was the easy part; it was given to me as a question on my final, undergraduate exam ... I arrived late to the classroom, there was no professor. Only confused students and a message on the blackboard: "Here, on your final day as an undergraduate sociologist, I leave you with one last test. It is the challenge that will see you through your lifetime. The answer is: You must be the change you want to see. Now I ask, what is your question?"

I am a Land Architect; I am a Land Architect: a designer of the land. My focus is on providing opportunities for the dynamics of life and emotions to occur; making places to be lived in, touched, and interacted with. But more than that, this profession is the lens I use when designing artwork. In my travels, I’ve seen and experienced the very best and the absolute worse of our man made environments. Now, as a designer and a naturalist with visual literacy of the land, I’m using artwork to point out our ecological problems; because we cannot hope to fix our deteriorating environments until people first see there is a problem.

So who am I?
I am an Artist. I am a Sociologist. I am a Landscape Architect. And I am the change that I want to see in the word because I am unafraid to say "No" and change what is unacceptable. Now I ask, Will you help me make that change?


ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
Although I work in several mediums, really my art form is knowing how to see; I know how gather all of my private moments of experience and specialized information, and then design all of that into artwork; a visual representation of the human experience and our current zeitgeist.

My artwork as a visual medium should be seen as a roadmap; I provide the starting point and the destination, the journey and experience belongs to the viewer … it’s up to each individual to take with them, not any particular brand of truth, but the possibility of uncovering experience and personal meaning.

Photography- My approach to photography is more of that of a journalist then of an artist. I photograph the world; not the picturesque world of nature’s perfection but the man-made environments in which we live; our cities and our cultivated wilderness. I’m seeking to give the viewer a glimpse about the, ‘spirit of our times’ showing, and telling the stories about the world which our children will inherit from us; for better or worse.

AcryiCrete and Abstract watercolors- These works are a celebration of color, texture and energy. I strive to invoke reflection upon emotions; giving the viewer not a thing to look at but stripping it all down and providing an abstract concept that evokes emotion … and maybe, just maybe it will inspire someone to go try it themselves.