A Divinatory Poetics
Through my image-making / Voicings , I explore paradox, chaos and imperfection. ‘Divinatory Poetics’ is my phrase for the way language emerges from the sensuous body, meaning-seeking mind and the landscape in which they are embedded – this is the crossroads where divinity sits.
Mystical practices and perspectives are the soil for my work; learning to ride the storms of emotional reactivity and environmental turbulence within the holy struggle of an artistic practice, a life-long undertaking.
My current focus: abstract painting (mixed media & oils), photography (analog preferred), somatic movement and ‘Voicings’ (written & voiced lyricisms) iterate the dance of stillness and articulation, silence and utterance.
I am interested in geography: what is built up and worn down organically over time and what moves beneath (and thus shapes) surfaces. Texture, saturation, contrast, depth and duration are critical compositional considerations.
For the purposes of good conversation, I curate atmospheric, loosely-ritualized, non-dogmatic, experimental workshop environments in which people can be alone-together, immersed in imaginative play, where attuning to the natural environment, instinctual body, emotional weathers and the absurdity of it all is of central interest.
