Artist Statement
Nature - my solace. Where I felt my soul lift up in happiness. A world where light, beauty, dreams, and hidden worlds live. It is infused into each brush stroke of my Chinese name where flowers, a garden, water, and the emotions of the heart reside. A world where I seek to soothe my broken spirit; to play, or to explore.
In many aspects of my life, I find I take the harder, less traveled path. It is so with my art. My process takes on the intuitive form. My path to creation doesn’t necessarily stem from something that is pre-planned. It celebrates exploration; uncovering patterns, colors, forms that my eye sees as interesting…unusual, beautiful. It can be finding a mini scene within a capture that surprises me when it reveals itself, either in person or on my computer screen. I am looking to either capture the light and beauty I see directly in front of me or to find it and tease it out in post-production. It is using my intuition to guide me to discovering the image that wants to be told. It is about creating without set boundaries, with freedom to imagine, redefine what is, and to expand borders. I use landscapes, at varying scales, colors, and my perspectives to invoke emotions bounded in nature. I offer my visions in the hopes of inspiring others to dream, to spread more light and beauty into one’s life and today’s world, to foster curiosity, and to shed society’s limitations of what is and what isn’t. Because, when you dream and explore, there are no boundaries except for the limits of one’s imagination.