Curator: Anthony Elms, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania and Curator of the Whitney Biennial, 2014.
What kind of work do you make and what kind of materials do you use? What’s your process?
My work, nourished by writings, includes various experimental forms – drawing, painting, installations, sculptures, textiles and artist’s books. My paintings have been described as increments of time and increments of marks and strokes in a meditative moment, where the kind of “glow” time is infinite in both directions, outward in accumulated, immeasurable brush strokes and inward towards a glow point. Music exemplifies it best — retaining previous notes to understand the whole body of music, my painting does something similar — back in time and forward in time.
What is most exciting about your creative process? Most challenging?
In my process I tap into the beautiful colors of the perpetual dance and rejoicing of the Universe. My artwork goes each time through a process of transformation and rebirth, there is a wholing emerging from the deep dives that I take.
What inspires you to make your work/what have you been looking at/reading/listening to lately?
Nature, myths, symbols, spirituality and light/color inspire me, other artists’ work inspires me. Lately I’ve been reading Carl Jung, Marc Edmund Jones, Sappho and looked at works by Emma Kunz, Sigmar Polke, Austin Osman Spare, Henry Michaux to name a few.
How has your practice been impacted by the current health crisis and quarantine? Have you made any work about it yet?
The whole planet is recalibrating, this is the intermediate space. Part of me looks up to see what’s happening and then dives back into the creative process. I am working on a project called “The Cosmic Clock”, encompassing more than 10 years of writings, paintings, drawings, artist books and 5D astrology recordings.