The world that we live in and the world I long for are two very different places. Often I feel lost in the cracks between the two; wanting healing but finding myself entrenched in the fractures, reaching for hope and feeling weighed down by worry. Maybe art can be a bridge in these spaces where reality seems to collide with any vision for meaningful change. 

Art is metaphor, giving language to describe the intangible, transferring meaning between seemingly unconnected things. At its best art can also be a link between disconnected points of view, an invitation to find common ground. 

This is the place of possibility. As Emily Dickinson wrote: 

I dwell in Possibility - 

A fairer House than Prose - 

More numerous of Windows - 

Superior - for Doors -

[…]

Of Visitors, the fairest -

For Occupation, This - 

The spreading wide my narrow Hands 

To gather Paradise -

Art can be a landscape of shared imagination, shared possibility. These paintings are my metaphors of hope; they focus on my sense of longing, of searching and transition, of reaching for spaces where my inner and outer landscapes could both be rooted. 

(These paintings will be displayed as a solo show in Pasadena, California with Maxwell Alexander Gallery)

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