Ode to the abstract expressionist - Franz Kline - born and buried in Wilkes-Barre, Pa - he did large black and white masterpieces. Because he did, I can - and that’s how it works. 

 There is a swimmer in this painting, amongst numbers - swimming through and making it’s way - protected, guided and eternally loved. 

And even though this safety pin in closed - it seems to know when to open, and it seems to be very content and peaced out in the field of red and orange and purple. 

The open safety pin - Open is so much better then closed.
 

The fuchsia color in this painting is a new color for me - but I love it. It’s the perfect combination of red and blue. It shows squares with numbers and then a very thick white circle in oil paint. 

Salt - the light to the dark pepper.  

Black pepper represents the dark - the shadow. My uncle says we wouldn’t know the light without the dark. 

I can feel a cartwheel somewhere in the recesses of my body….- but I have not done one in a long time…. I think I need to put it on my “to-do list”. 

The number 45 - my age. I am very aware of the age you are when something ‘Big’ happens in your life. I feel we hold numbers in our bodies and have a visceral response to them. When I hear 9/11 - something shifts...

Another figure with the arms up receiving the dopamine... she’s swirling, twirling and completely in the moment where there are no problems.

The words “I Love You” - feel so good to hear - yet could you ever fully articulate what they mean?

I am interested in the push and pull of the foreground and the background. In a spiritual sense, I think of it as the push and pull between the ego and spirit - or the conscious and the unconscious.
In this image of the bottle --- the background is taking over.  

This image came from an old photograph by Rudolf Kopppitz (1884-1936) Motion Study. It inspired the large paintings that will be shown at Marquis in Scranton often times many graphite works precede my paintings. I do a drawing a day - I love it. 

Shells are interpreted as artistic ability, change of consciousness, emotional stability, the goddess, good fortune in relationships, good news, good outcome in legal matters, happiness near water, luck, money, rebirth, safe return, spiritual awareness...

This image just makes me happy - she is surrounded by a large circular force - numbers and a lot of energy surrounds and overlaps her. All is alright in her world. 

Coffee - my mom drank her coffee black and strong and so do my two sisters and I, very early in the morning. I sit and bring her spirit into quiet time - she likes it. 

This orange and yellow painting is very powerful to me - it represents all that is good and right - it is very, very positive. 

Matches have always inspired me - I love the little box and the way it folds into itself. They speak to the burning and getting rid of, and also to illuminating - brightening my day with candles, incense, and fires.
 

The shell again surrounded with mark-making. I was at a residency and an older female artist said we don’t have to know where mark-making comes from - it comes from a deep place. I never forgot that - speaks to the mystery of life.

The closed hand represents being closed to life. When I am closed, I am closed to everything and it’s not a fun place to be in. However, I know and accept that nothing lasts forever.

Like the moon, I wax and wane.