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There are certain places in nature I return to again and again. Some of these places I experience daily, some live in my memory and some in my imagination. I am attracted to particular places not only for their unique beauty, but also for their accessible, “personal” qualities including flora and fauna, and perhaps mostly for what they elicit in me. My attraction is plural and layered. This outlook, along with my love for modernist inventions, has led to my investigation of different compositional forms.
Most recently I have been interested in investigating the form and feel of natural processes and the “unseen”, such as the feel of a rainy day, the flight of active hunting insects, or the activity of frogs. My work explores regeneration in nature (in a time of destruction), and the need for nurture, magic and wonder.
The theme for the exhibit, “ Stepping Twice”, was conceived by my brother Rich, and refers to a Heraclitus quote “You cannot step into the same river twice.” However, as sibling artists we believe in a way that we are stepping twice into that creative stream, revisiting and reinterpreting the same natural stimuli. We seem to share as a birthright a strong passion for the land, and for the same places.
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