What I practice in my personal growth parallels my creative process. In this past year, I have been sinking into awareness training — where I observe my thoughts, feelings and reactions. I experience my quality of being, or the way I exist, change when I make the conscious decision to redirect my personal energies. Can The Observer and The Observed exist without the other? Existence is a co-creative endeavor where we are in relationship with everyone and everything around us.
In my creative process, I am working in cooperation with my environment by utilizing found material and in return my need to create in re-imagined ways is nurtured. I honor the natural integrity of the material and intuit the way it guides my composition. Through the repurposing process, my medium maintains its core structure yet becomes changed in its condition of existence. In essence, the media itself is a transformed entity, or an Altered Being, as it finds life in my art.