Why I Create

Why I Create

…to translate sensory impressions into visual images, bypassing a need for words.

…to convey feeling tones, impressions, and nuances in this midlife chapter of my “broadband” search for meaning and understanding of the human condition, and my small place in the vast world order.

…to remain grounded in connection to the Earth and the energetics of our multidimensional environments.

My work continues to explore images inspired by our enduring need for emotional connection – from some of the earliest cave painting representations of the human heart over 12,000 years ago, to the animation of vital life-force energies in their rhythmic dance of expansion/contraction, to the calligraphic characters that express universal qualities shared by both natural and human-made worlds. 


 Important portals for my creativity include yoga and other movement practices; meditation; making music (harp, piano, and flute); and time in nature and play, especially with my four-legged companion. Poetry and people’s evocative stories inspire me. I relish tapping into the magic and the mystery of co-creation, in which I am less an author than a vessel for its essential and continual flow.