I dislike the term “fine art.” It suggests that art is some kind of cherry on top or something distinct from basic life functions. But, of course, art is a primal necessity within the human project. We have lived for at least 40,000 years doing art. We need it for our evolution, connection, and awareness. Art is fixed firmly to the ground, painted on our bodies, or secreted dangerously deep in caves. Raw materials are transformed & attached to everyday life reminding us to feel, to awaken, to dream. Or as the great philosopher Suzanne Langer argues, art is what makes abstraction and language even possible. In art we first discriminate important features of the human landscape, including its offering of possibility - distinctly before we have words for any of it.

So I am concerned to make art that stands in the barely perceptible gaps of human experience - inviting us to crossover, to reconsider, to step out of our routines - to join the human race - to live well on this planet. (Something we aren’t doing very well at, I fear.)

Okay. Okay. And sometimes I just need to make stuff.

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