My observations delve into materials and processes that serve as sensory portraits of life inhibited and bygone. I am a materialist and work with a wide palette of pigments and textiles from around the world. Process in the works is the message. Often a medium is selected, preferably in its elemental form. Next, it is intimately prepared and rendered. As the medium travels through the composition, it informs of its place and role, through the relationships that it builds. Therefore, an unhurried sense of time is an essential part of the process.Influences of indigenous practices, particularly prehistoric cave paintings and related schools of art play an important role in carving my process and ideology