halo of bees
My work is an escape as well as a submersion into magical thinking, childhood, and life traumas. It is based on visions, DREAMS , horrors, the search of love, salvation, dark humor, and gifts that I find on long walks through Phoenix, the city of my birth, my capture and comfort. I have chosen to use objects that are familiar to me either for their resonance to the story I am trying to work through at the time or the psychic energy they put off. Setting up these still lifes and painting these paintings brings me a similar feeling to being alone in my room or hiding in the backyard as a child. Not unlike times in our life when we could fit inside the viewmaster if we only squinted hard enough, or the dollhouse if we only believed it to be true. These times and places where everything made perfect sense and everything had a happy ending. I am bridging the gap between that happy ending and the reality of what really happened or is happening. This is good.
"I do not believe that I am dreaming however I can not prove that I am not".
