“When we step to the banks of the river we probably will not hear the river speak directly.  A river speaks only when it encounters obstruction or when winds make waves lap its banks or when it rushes into some newfound channel.

 

Yet, in its silence, the river speaks to each of us by letting us hear ourselves and by allowing us to reflect and listen to that river of thought and feeling that flows deep within each of us.

 

The voice of my internal “river” is visual and not auditory.  My artwork speaks both of calm and of turbulence, of beauty and of threat, of contemplation and reaction.

 

My artwork, seen together over time, has become a river in itself -- a river whose main currents and eddies have moved forward side-by-side, though often not even seeming to be connected -- a river that seeks new outlets as it swells and joins with new streams which feed it and make it broader and stronger -- a river, which in its totality is actually my own life-in-progress.

 

Listening is a difficult thing to do, at best.  There is no lack of things to hear.  My hope is that listening to the river will help you pause to hear yourself.”