I’m an observer. I’ve always been an observer. I was the child who sat quietly with the adults at dinner parties, listening intently to conversations both literally and figuratively over my head. I was the child my mother could count on to repeat the details she forgot from the phone conversation she had with a friend earlier that day. I was the child who knew all the names of the neighbors, their dogs, the cars they drove, the gossip being spread about them, etc. I’ve always been collecting. 

As an adult and an artist, I carry on the tradition. I’m still the listener-- the participant. I act as both receiver and translator of information gained. Today, the data is often drawn and magnified so that the viewer can begin to notice the small but important details in our immediate world with me.