Artist Statement

 It has taken 50 years for me to finally understand one basic truth about all art: people get out of art what they bring to it. No matter what I’m trying to “say” with a piece, it will always be perceived through the life-lens of the observer. Everything they have ever seen or done has created a filter through which they now experience life–and art. Each person experiences the work differently, and it is as though my art–ANY art–can create a door where no door had been. And if the art resonates through the life-lens of the viewer, the door will open. That door leads not out to some alien place, but in to “self.” When a person is fortunate enough to find a resonant piece of art and to open that amazing door, there is no end to what they can learn about themselves.