I have been taking my work in a new direction by working with mostly drawing mixed media and collage. In 2003, I took a graduate drawing class with Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) at Brooklyn College. Since then I have been developing a portfolio of work that deals with automatic and spontaneous line as well as collage. Very little of the work is traditionally planned. In the beginning this was a very different way of working for me, since I was trained as a printmaker, where spontaneity is difficult to achieve.

I produce consecutive pieces and often reflect on the work when it is completed. When I am working, I run off a vague theme or idea, I ask myself questions and try to answer them with the drawings. The ideas may be likened to simply exploring a particular color scheme, shape, or an aesthetic quality that I am trying to reach. These forms are rarely referenced observationally, but come to the page through my well of visually inspired memory.

The aesthetic quality of the work is as important if not more important to me as the subject matter. I want the viewer to be visually engaged in the work, yet I realize that the implied meanings of the subject matter can tug at the viewer making it difficult to read without curiosity. However, I feel the curiosity of the viewer is what gives the work life.

For me this work is always finding its way and developing. Making the work is a learning process. The more experimental I let myself be, the more successful I believe the work becomes.