Trained as a dancer and performer, I've spent most of my life using the arts as a way to express myself. Though I once thought of my diversity amongst the arts as a distraction to my work, I now see my history with expression and movement as a powerful catalyst, There is tension, freedom and balance in dance, the same qualities I find in art. At some points I invite the raw presence of line, while in others I render in a more illusionistic way. When I choreograph or teach dance, I often call a similar ebb-and-flow to light, responding to its unique voice. I find this way of working exciting and confusing, akin to the complex world we've yet to understand.

       In much of my work, I use the contradictory materials of charcoal and oil. I like to let  jagged and aggresive line describe some states of figure, and soft layered strokes of oil others. In working this way, I hope that line and color work together to free my intentions.