Human made beauty is a way of seeing God, but no more so than human
made ugliness, because there is that side of God too.  The Scriptures say
God has created both Shalom and Ra … wholeness and calamity

-- Unknown

In my work the intent is to suggest the ‘presence of an absence”, to intrigue the viewer and set up a dialectical tension that is deliciously painful. Thru texture, color, layering and found materials (wax, rust, wood, anything discarded yet lovely) a tension is achieved – beauty vs. ugliness, aggressive vs. peaceful, forgotten vs. precious. There is a vastly minute place that exists between these poles and it is there that I live and love, often oscillating from one noisy extreme to the other. But I seek to explore and abide in that space, for it is in there that one hears the still small voice.