The House, the Yard and What Lies Beyond the Gate

The house, the rooms within, the yard are all metaphors for areas of my life: artistic experience, practice and personal transformation. Each location is a chapter.

Each location is also a place where the personal, intellectual and artistic intersect. The basement holds no pleasure, dark and cold, a hiding place.

The kitchen is a conversation with others, a place of sustenance or starvation. The hallways are walks of courage, leaving one room for another.

My interdisciplinary art practice explores questions of home, shelter, dwelling, imprisonment, sometimes locations of violence, but also healing within the individual, family, community and world. Relationships are the substance of these works, and the performative is the personal made public. My reaching out to the world and the world reaching back is the moment of performance. Finally out the door, “What Lies Beyond the Gate Unknown” is the last chapter.

Through my work a new home is built, a place of hope and act of faith, the construction has begun.