I have always been spellbound by narratives - religious, political, social or personal - seized in the space/time of painting. In visual form, stories seem enigmatic and at the same time revelatory.
In my work, I describe an anxious state hovering between a conscious narrativeˆpolitical and autobiographicalˆand a totally subjective, interior dialogue. I jumble everyday objects and fragmented body parts in skies over fictional but familiar landscapesˆsimulating a visual equivalent of this free associative state of mind where metaphors and meanings hover and co-mingle. Like clues floating in a dream, I seek a complex ambiguity between elements which defies easy interpretation. The sky serves as a rich medium for the dramas to unfold and the pull of gravity at the horizon is taught with visual and psychological tension.
Most of my work reflects a disturbing place of unsettling forces, pressures and struggles but not without a sense of irony and humor. Influenced by Goya‚s black paintings, they are meant to be humble narratives addressing personal themes of conflict, time, motherhood and middle-age.