My purpose in painting, printmaking or collage, is to make order out of chaos. I want to simplify an image as clearly and directly as I can, getting at the essence of that image by using color and shape. I make art that's important to me, that I want to explore and see. I respond strongly to what I'm working on; there must be an image, thought or feeling worth manifesting, elucidating or unveiling. My work is complete when nothing can be added to it or subtracted from it.
The process of making art is magical and spiritual and totally absorbing to me. I'm grateful for all of it, even the struggles and challenges, because it all helps me to understand myself and how to make my art more clearly.
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