I make prints and paper and paintings as witness to my life, from my lived experience. The materials I use influences the artwork, in handmade paper pulp paintings or prints or paint on canvas. The simple materials and processes of making paper and monoprints have their own intrinsic sensibility.

My work is driven by a curiosity about seeing what is, and learning what the ideas in my head look like once they are in the arena of the material creative processes. Stories, poems and legends are rich inspirations. Visions of what is above and below "see level" are inspiring. My experiences traveling throughout Asia are foundational to my thinking, and memory cultivates imagination. It's a personal body of work.

I'm interested in the awareness of deep time - experienced in my childhood on the land in New Mexico, a feeling of deep lived history lived wherever I stand, in Tibet in China and throughout Asia. The awareness itself, how we are aware, and how we can be in a timeless way is so interesting to me.

The monotype method of printmaking has painterly characteristics and a quality of being immediate, even if the work might take extended periods of time, and many passes through the press. A monotype has unique print sensibility, being a one-of-a-kind and still a print. I feel a kinship with this method and most of my prints are monotypes.

Making paper is simply fun. The basic materials of fibers and water combine to open up a rich field of creative possibilities. I frequently print an engraved line on the matrix of a poured paper pulp composition. Handmade paper takes a printed line beautifully. The flow in paper making and its wet to dry nature mirrors so much change, what is once fragile can become strong, what is once raw and coarse becomes clarified and fine. I love the flow.

Painting is like standing in a stream. The stream has its own momentum. An image takes form in the current of where you stand with your materials. If you are there ready, the confluence of your materials, thoughts, and the stream, shape the result.

My artwork is a way of understanding, of sharing experience.