I find myself day dreaming a lot. I always have, and it was something I remember getting into trouble with as I was growing up. I constantly had my head in the clouds, thinking about anything and everything, important and not. I have always been a visual person, so when I am day dreaming I see pictures and feel emotions. I find that my night dreams themselves, embrace the same pictorial landscape and usually are epic stories told through symbolism. The type of symbolism, that sometimes when I wake up, it’s like “ what the H-E- double- hockey- sticks was that about?” and other times I can make connections to what my sub conscious is telling me. This connection between symbolism and the sub conscious and conscious self is what birthed the idea for my Dream Scape Series.

This series of work is an allegorical glimpse into the self and life. The images are very ethereal, dreamlike, if you will, and are deeply entwined with symbolism. The work deals with some of my favorite concepts to play with in my art: transformation, fate, duality and time. They are meant to represent different realities - the physical and metaphysical as well as functioning from both a conscious and subconscious plane of our existence.

Where I imagine these paintings exist, is an infinite space floating around where there is no time, gravity, or many of the planetary laws that we experience in our conscious lives. This is a space where dreams are created and wishes made. The space in between our world and the next where all the strands of fate are woven and you can see the connections between past present and future told in allegorical symbolism.

To try and describe this place, I have built up the painting in layers of mixed media. It’s important to me that there are many different things to create these pieces so that it represents the primordial mix of what can make up one’s life.  After all, what we are dealt in life ultimately has a connection to molding who we are.  I find sculpture very interesting and like to add physical objects to the paintings such as, my ever beloved; keys and locks, but sometimes have included found objects, upholstery nails, gears and watch parts. I believe that every object that is placed in the work has a symbolic representation of some of the concepts I have mentioned above.

These pieces embody a vintage, timeless feel with the damask pattern back grounds that are layered with poems, thoughts, and situations. The writing is not supposed to be something that can be read, but more so represents the complexity of our inner selves and the environments we exist in.

I see these works as puzzle pieces that will fit together to tell a story. The storey changes faces depending on the viewer to align with our own personal symbolism that we have created in life. All of these concepts are timeless and universal and we as people have all experienced them at some point during our journey. All of these pieces are like little treasure chests and gifts of infinite knowledge and history into yourself. Volia!