Suspended Landscapes
Impermanence by 15th C. poet Ikkyu Sojun
Look very closely
Only impermanence lasts.
This floating world, too, will pass.
I look at life like a floating world. A giant changing realm of appearances, colors, emotions, and patterns. The whole internal and external world changes ever so slowly and beautifully. All things appear and all things dissolve moment to moment. My floating worlds represent the impermanence of each precious life.
I create a personal language of forms, lines, and symbols that invites the viewer to be part of my poetic landscapes. These worlds are journeys through moments of inner stillness and reflection. My invented vocabulary provides a gateway to experience magical moments, places of self-reflection and wonder. By shifting our ordinary relationship with language, I invite the mind to wander, prompting viewers to trace the inner ponderings of memory, silence and imagination. I merge terrestrial journeys with celestial terrains that become interconnected evoking a sense of place. The work takes the viewer’s eye beyond what is defined on the surface toward a profound yet mysterious sense of beauty where one is left with a suggestion of what lies beyond.