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My ultimate goal in life is to infuse my personal
and professional interactions, with the healing power of art.
I believe that creating art is essential to maintaining homeostasis
in my physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health.
The process of creating art innately connects me to a stream of
spiritual consciousness, which allows me to release stress, contemplative,
reward, and heal myself.
My artistic compositions reflect my gender and are
also a visual representation of my hybridism: a fusion of my ethnic,
cultural, and social experiences. I have been influenced by the
work of Alma Thomas, Romare Bearden, Frida Kahlo, Bette Saar,
Francine Haskins, and Frank Smith. Conceptually, my art is a mediation
that encapsulates the concerns, tensions, and joys of my life
and consequently presents a creative framework for my artwork.
I primarily work in collage and assemblage. I also
work with photography, pastels, acrylic, watercolors, and oil
paint sticks. Throughout my work I use materials, color, light,
and found objects as a vehicle to symbolically communicate my
personal experience, the experiences of woman in general, and
our connection to nature and spirituality. I intentionally impose
colors, imagery, and materials that evoke femininity, tranquility,
and positive concepts with the intent of transcending or balancing
a masculine form such as a grid and fence.
I associate working with light, color, and energy as a positive
means to focus on the healing power found within all of us. This
connection refers to our connection to the environment and our
innate ability and structural need to recycle energy and materials,
and to regenerate power, whether from an internal or external
source. I believe that we function in a world, where the only
constant is change and everything in our universe will and has
to change, be used, recycled and/or maintained. Because change
is inevitable, in order to evolve we constantly have to reassess
and redefine what we value and how we manage, appreciate, and
maintain our resources. Through my work I seek to examine the
parallels between how humanity perceives its greatest resources,
man/woman power verses how we treat our possessions and environment.
Art is my calling and I have heard its pleasing whispers for
most of my life. As a child, I have hummed along to my inner songs.
Songs without lyrics, just colors, and ideas for further artwork.
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