My work centers on realms and experiences of grief/loss/death/soul/beauty.  I feel strongly that these experiences need new spaces to gather and express.  We, as people, need new spaces and new ways to engage these experiences that go beyond words, surface, pharmacy and commerce.  Spaces which support the depth and intensity of what it means to be human.  My work represents an attempt to create such spaces through the act of imagining and the sacred container of community.  As a lifelong seeker, I deeply resonate with what what Joseph Campbell says in The Power of Myth,

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

I focus within the realms of grief/loss/death/soul/beauty because, in my experience, paying attention to these complex, often neglected and co-opted experiences can show us and teach us the wild nature of our hearts. They can put us in touch with the ‘rapture of being alive’.  We live in a consumer culture that doesn’t know what to do with grief and loss, that ignores death, that tries to market soul to us and define beauty for us. In my view, these are sacred realms that need to have sacred spaces to be encountered, expressed and engaged.  They need to be tended and they are not for sale.

My sincere wish is that my work helps to open hearts to the deep beauty of being alive and, in doing so, creates more space for peace, justice, truth and LOVE in this world and on this planet that we all share.