Artist Statement

I am addicted to details. I collect them, I hoard them, I document them, and I am incapable of ever letting them go. At the same time, I want to share all my many many hoarded details, and my love for them. The space I inhabit, the people I know, and the inside of my mind all are made beautiful to me by the details that make them up. For me every composition, in art and life, is defined by the way that its elements and bits and textures interact as they are forced to coexist together. I am particularly drawn to the work of artists like Joseph Cornell, who used elements that do not have any inherent affiliation with each other, and are not particularly thought to belong together, but which enrich his boxes and collages through the relationships they form when they are placed together in the same environment.

Relationships are very important to the way I approach art-making - I am passionate about creating relationships between objects or concepts that do not exist together in nature. I am convinced that it does not matter too very much what the objects were or what was in the photographs I have chosen, or whether two lines of text actually make sense, because all a person has to do in order to create an interesting new relationship full of possible meanings and connotations is to nudge any two separate things slightly closer together. I try to make art out of images and textures that are visually compelling to begin with, because something compelling will invariably occur when they are brought together.


If you enjoy my work, you can purchase products featuring my images in my Etsy shop.

The current number of quilts you can see here on my website, as of 1/19/09 is EIGHTY TWO!

Contact Info:
If you'd like to get in touch with me, feel free to email me here: lookcloselypress [at] yahoo [dot] com. I look foward to hearing from you.