Artist Statement
My artwork is mainly based upon my experiences with my surrounding, and with my thoughts. As a person I really like to connect with nature, and I like to bring nature into my life and artwork. My art involves the use of elements that are found in nature. For instance, wood, glass, rocks, and metal. I combine these natural elements with technology and make art. My work is visual and involves the sense of touch. I have always been a person who likes to make things with my hands and experience that media I am working with my sense of touch. I think the sense of touch brings the artwork alive. My photography work involves portraits and abstract art, that I like to make with mirrors and glasses combined with ordinary objects. In my series of abstract photographic images, I have used mirrors and placed them with different angles to create reflection of themselves in them. I also use rocks and other objects and place them in front of the mirrors to create other shapes that is not the same as the original shape. My wood working art has been making of small tables and trays. I have made a napkin holder by wood with a little use of tools, most of the work was done by hand with carving, and sanding. I have also made objects that require the use of wood working tools. My experience working with metal is creating sculpture. I like to create organic lines with this hard element.
The motivation of my art comes from life experiences. I like to bring those experiences into art life. I want to give them a space to live in my art. I do not want the viewer to experience the same as I did, as we all have our own journey in life to live and experience it differently. As a viewer I want you to look and see what you want to see not what I saw and created.
My experience with different medias has expanded my vision of creating art in different forms and materials that are found in nature. I would like these art creations to live in the viewers minds as they connect them personally.