MFA student: Painting

For the past year or so, I have been making formal collages with found materials. I try to make objects that have the same lyrical simplicity found in good poetry. When the pieces really work, they have a humble presence, a wholeness.

For myself, the process of making is an intuitive game, not unlike solving complicated math problems. Sometimes the solutions to visual problems seem to come more from the gut than anywhere else.

I was enchanted with the Sublime when I worked in South Carolina, and now in Miami, I am enamored by the Beautiful. There is no recipe for including these things in one's art, but I am certainly happy when they decide to show up in mine.