My studio practice involves an interdisciplinary approach, a working back and forth, creating a conversation between several different mediums, primarily but not restricted to collage - as painting, ceramic sculpture, drawing/painting on stoneware, graphite drawings, and geometric tile paintings.  I experiment with finding a visual language utilizing surrealist practices (automatic sculpting-drawing-painting, and frottage) to portray that which lay hidden in my psyche.  Much of my work whether 2 or 3 dimensional involves an exploration of color, form/shape and texture which grew from my experience of making collagraph plates and prints while studying at Parsons School of Design. 
 
I employ an amalgamation of ‘automatic’ and tactile process-oriented techniques.  I create paintings on wooden canvases with “rippings”  from art magazines.  I construct stoneware sculptures from coils and slabs.  I make stoneware tiles (and the stoneware frames I display them in) and stoneware canvases that I draw into (intaglio) and push impressions into with different textures (intaglio and relief) while the clay is still malleable.  I makes graphite frottage drawings (sometimes inspired by my collages) from a variety of textures.   Deciphering what appears can be a slow unfolding process that often brings to the fore symbols serving as metaphors, shapes defined by texture, appearing and sometimes floating in unfamiliar environments, teasing one to search for meaning and relevance.  Whatever it is that comes forth it always reveals the feelings, images, symbols and new creative directions that I am most passionate about which are often issues concerning the environment, love, loss, and rarely but sometimes they are statements concerning politics.