Artist Statement 

Nature occurs in bits and pieces…interacting and integrating to create infinite possibilities and opportunities within a single moment. Conceptually, the computer mirrors the mind, working in a continuous flux where the only constant is constant change.

My work emerges from this ongoing “state of collage”, this dynamic collection of disparate experience.

Working with the computer enhances my experience of viewing life from a subatomic perspective. How does the analog talk to the digital? How does the bit give voice to the atom?

While paint lives in the analog world of matter and atoms, the computer calls the digital world its home. My work is a dialogue between these two worlds.

I am mimicking the ‘digital revolution’ when I work with the computer to integrate, replicate, and generate.

The paint represents the analog world. Nothing goes on or changes from one state to another without going through a transition. There is something so tangible about painting with oil-totally different from manipulating images on a screen. I like contrasting the thick juiciness of the paint with the smoothness of the print.

In “Sand, Water, Sky," I scanned my painting into the computer and manipulated the work by copying and pasting selected areas, pushing them around, much as a painter pushes paint around. By integrating, replicating, and generating certain selections of the painting, the work is transformed. I then print it onto a large canvas and finally apply paint to the print.

The unique vocabulary of “copy, paste, copy, paste, copy," that runs throughout my collage paintings is the language I use to talk about both the computational speeds of our digital age, which integrates unparalleled amounts of information and the evolving technology of generation and replication used in computer-based algorithms.