- Artist Statement -

It took me a long time to figure out hashtags. In fact, I had to ask a friend to give me a tutorial. She explained, “Hashtags can either be used as a tool to be witty or as a way to categorize a post.” My response was, “Wow, these things really communicate more than I thought!”

Single statements, or a single word in some cases, with the pound sign in front of it, can completely change the essence of a photo you’re viewing or change your mind about what you’re reading. Hashtags can spark a new conversation and a new perspective. At our fingertips is an abundance of ways to communicate; online, offline, this app, that app, emails, handwritten greeting cards, you name it! What an exciting time and place we live in!

For me, communication is much more than words and how they’re delivered. Life inspires me to look around, to be present, and to soak up the sights, sounds and smells. Life motivates me to question, “How do I color this?” rather than, “How do I put this into words?” That is someone else’s gift.

Music and food and poetry and words all inspire my art. But the best language I know how to speak is through texture and scale and movement and color on a canvas.

Perhaps the most important thing I wanted to communicate with this exhibition is that there is no right or wrong when it comes to what you see in my art. That is why, when people ask me to talk about my art or bring words to it, I always hesitate. It is difficult for me to definitively express my passion for this art and this life. So if you ever ask me this question, don’t be surprised if I respond, “there are no words.”

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