In textiles, installations, and interactive performances, I explore how spiritual practice becomes art practice. My experiences as a hospice volunteer, musician, and Buddhist inform my work’s focus on contemplating impermanence as a path to spiritual transformation. Artmaking is a vehicle for exploring the nature of my reality, and both communicating what I find and sharing the path itself. I take inspiration from mystic/artists such as Hilma af Klint, Sengai Gibon, and Agnes Martin, who have sought to expound the path of awakening in artistic form.
In content as well as process, my work explores notions of empathy, awareness, ceremony, and aspiration. I seek to create an empathetic experience of meditative calm through subtle stitching. I externalize meditation in drawings and paintings, translating awareness practices into physical existence. I create improvised spiritual ceremonies using music and chanting, bringing ancient traditions into contemporary forms, to include others in my contemplative work as an offering. I utilize poetry to create a sense of aspiration, translating my highest ideals into material form. By bringing my spiritual exploration into the realm of the physical with artmaking, I hope to give others a piece of what I have received from the spiritual path – a calmness, a sense of the preciousness of life, and in the intention of serving others, a purpose for living.
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