Artist's Statement
Wherein lies the gist . . .
“ . . . I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly – as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the universe, blink by blink . . .” Grendl, John Gardner.
This quote explains my work more susinctly than any I’ve come across. Realism does not encompass the license I take with objects, for reality is, more often than not, likely to be an illusion. Photorealism is too strict a genre and misleading. I wish the viewer to know that this is art created by my hands. Surrealism implies that my conscious mind is not involved in the decisions or solutions to the challenges I alone set.
This is untrue. Perhaps alterealism would do. The only valid perspective is mine. To try another’s would only be imitation and pure speculation. The craftsmanship must contain integrity, and the message be based on my metaphysical value judgments. I have no patience with art that forces the viewer to wonder what it means or is 'Untitled'. The only question I wish to hear is, “How the heck did she DO that?” That defines success in my universe.
My emphasis is trompe l’oeil, fooling the eye, with the added constrict of combining 2D and 3D design principles. Some scales are purposefully inappropriate, not accidental. Nothing is left to chance . . . a bit of sunlight where none should be, size diminished or exaggerated for certain effect, unexpected materials or presentation . . . all calculated to entrance the eye and the mind today, or to discover later . . . blink by blink.
Mission Statement
. . . of recreating one's world.
The greatest advantage of pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree is that it forces one out of a chosen milieu to obtain a working knowledge of the varieties of media available to the artist. This is also the reason many decide NOT to start such a labor-intensive journey. To muddy the waters of comprehension, Art Theory and the complex jargon of the craft are kept with guarded secrecy until just before graduation. We spend most of our lives, even within the profession, feeling like a 2-yr.-old toddler whose parents are trying to explain quantum physics as it relates to potty training.
That being said, I set out to defrag the strategic disinformation perpetuated (largely) by the people who make money from our works without actually DOING the work – or even understanding it. If you get nothing else from this treatise, remember this alone: Throw all the rules out the window! If you are in the arts (any of them), no one has the right to tell you that your work is insignificant because it doesn’t fit in with their narrow views of purely subjective professions. If you are a patron (and we bless you daily), no one has a right to tell you that your opinion of a piece of schlock lacks validity because you do not possess the obfuscatory scatology to explain your feelings.
My images are meant to disconcert, to distort size and make us question our gigantic egos with a soupcon of humor thrown into the mix. Don’t take anything in life too seriously, especially Posers!
On Critics
And Other Self-Appointed Advisors.
In short, there ARE no art experts; the nature of the profession makes that claim an impossibility. But it is my fervent opinion that you owe yourself the education of, not only being able 
to speak in Poser language but, possibly broadening your horizons and understanding why we would do what we do just for the love of it – and then either DO it with us or learn to love it a larger diversity of it just a little bit, too.
To that end, I set out to create the simplest, quickest explanation of the arts that could be compiled. We owe it to ourselves to be more than just blind critics.
And one more thing; try not to do it for free for anyone but yourself.
"Ask your plumber or electrician for just a little bit of free work that won't take him much time - because he's sooo talented." Savannah Blaze Lee