During my last two semesters at Goddard College, my work began to take on new meaning that has moved me forward into my current process.  One watershed event came as a result of recording the sounds of a summer thurderstorm during my drive home.  Back in the studio, I listened to the sounds and then created three mixed media pieces.  The event created layers of sound and noise, and the resulting visual image demonstrates my move toward responding and interpreting audio work that is not music.

Fundamentally, my hope was to pull out the color that I felt hearing the water rushing down the windows and under my tires as I drove through this storm. 
The resulting collage is the essence of a bumpy ride home, twisting and turning down the highway through the hills of upstate New York, over hills and down into valleys while the storm raged.


   

Driving Rain, (triptych) acrylic on illustration board, collage, charcoal pencil, 8x10 each



I began creating paintings while listening to the sounds of my morning runs.  The pulse of my feet hitting pavement form the underlying basis of the painting with other sounds of nature and man interjected throughout as happens while I am running early in the morning.  All works created here are 8x10 acrylic and mixed media on archival illustration board.


                           


Furthering my process, I began working not only with the aspects of repetition and pattern, but also with the running man image that has appeared in many of my paintings throughout my studies at Goddard.  In each of the following works, I believe they mature with each iteration.  In some instances, there is a softening and in others the empty spaces are now filled.

                        


The Goddard experience was an incredible process that included engaging in new techniques, learning new concepts, and working through a multitude of self-reflections to get to a new level of maturity.  I feel invigorated by this new work and grateful for the opportunity to explore, dig deep and create work in new ways.  This work is no longer about straight observation of what is around me, but understanding how what is around me can help the work evolve from within.