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My work is about containment. I explore some facet of the human condition in a drawing and box it up or put it in a bottle. I create a stage for the drawing and invite the audience to get close, look at and touch it. Sometimes the drawings are in the form of puppets and the viewer may tug the strings and make them jump. I put music boxes that the viewer can crank on some pieces, or I'll mount the drawing on a turntable so it will spin. The important part is that the experience is shared, that a story has been told... perhaps not the story I had in mind. I've succeeded when the piece develops its own story.
Not all of my work does a jig or cranks out a song. Some of my work is very still, a moment caught and pinned down, like a butterfly in a museum exhibit, a cabinet of curiosity. But my boxes and bottles contain glimpses of ordinary moments and thoughts we've all experienced, a bit of the joy and pain of growing up, of being human.
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