Spontaneity propels my process. I often start with words and swathes of delicious color. The words are eventually partially obscured by figures, faces, line, landscape. I form an alliance with my materials, be they acrylics, oils, watercolor, collage elements, to express the mystery of connection between interior and exterior. My paintings play with space that alternates between surface and three dimensions, between imagination and observation. With an unconscious wish for a dialogue between my work and the observer of the piece, I paint freely, imagery that seems to emerge as the work progresses. I surprise and beckon myself into the piece as I sprinkle my abstractions with the in and out of broken line and space to further the illusion of falling into a new world. Creating these works is for me an artistic-spiritual betrothal. As for all people who want to give meaning to life by working creatively or intimately with the raw materials at hand, making art is a merging that joins worker, work, and observer in a new reality that transcends the everyday and escorts us into an inexplicable realm. It is that realm that I express in my art.