I view art and its creation as an act of transcendence. It is a way to draw the sublime into the material and for the the physical to reach the numinous. As an intuitive artist, I experience the world empathically/psychically. Different locations/times and populations are characterized by a particular resonant frequency, a collective vibration that I experience as subtle energy within my body. I then express that energy in form, line, and color. These components are layered and come together and separate while viewing, creating primal symbols, human/animal forms, and a general sense of layered construction. I refer to my work as intuitive, neo-primitive, and energetic.
Neo-primitive harkens back to the most basic of forms we can find etched like runes in stone and drawn in charcoal on cave walls. Energy and consciousness reduced to its most basic forms of curves and lines and color. This visual language was often expressed by shamans and medicine people recording their psychic journeys or intending forms of energy into the world. They were conveying their physical and psychic worlds for posterity. Centuries later, influenced by abstract, modern, and expressionist style and form it becomes my language to relate the narrative of an analogous psychic space.
In life and in artistic practice I strive to draw my community into places of greater sensitivity and ultimately empathy, through raising conscious awareness. I do this by bringing people closer to their own intuitive faculties. The more sensitive they become the more they can understand the symphony of sentient consciousness that makes up their world and how much of an impact they actually have. I find that the energy I embody challenges perspective, and as a result draws people into a new place of self-awareness. I do this through the energy I embody, the art I create, the transpersonal/spiritually/ceremonially rich lifestyle I lead, and how I share that with those I encounter. Whether it’s through a shamanic drum journey workshop, empathic therapeutic reflection, or intuitive artistic work, I am seeking to express and reflect the highest resonance I can hold and impart that truth with the world.
I honor the divinity in myself, in others, and in the natural world around me. This consciousness has a particular resonance and it magnetizes the ethereal and the magical. I care about the Earth, I care about community, sustainability, and the uniting of peoples by respecting the God spark in all of us.
I honor the divinity in myself, in others, and in the natural world around me. This consciousness has a particular resonance and it magnetizes the ethereal and the magical. I care about the Earth, I care about community, sustainability, and the uniting of peoples by respecting the God spark in all of us.