Landscape is about the field of space, light, and form. In this field, documentation and imagination can join. Landscape, encompassing our dreams and visions, can become a way of seeing past the ordinary and into the extraordinary. It is, for me, a passage from daylight perception to another more personal realm.

The process is varied but consistency lies in documenting my feeling for and relationship with the land. I lived in Western New York for fourteen years and had to feel my way through the spaces there. in. It was always cloudy, emotional, less visual and more felt. I wanted to distill the special elements about the Western New York landscape and make them visual as simply and directly as possible. Damp, cold, full of growth and movement, the Barnum Swamp drawings done just before I left summarized my feelings for that ancient place. Powerful energies, fantastic and unreal seemed to be at work there.

When I moved to Utah four years ago it was as if someone had suddenly turned on the lights. Traveling from one kind of climate, land, culture to an opposite one, I could see light again and my dark New York tonality seemed very much out of place here.

Gradually I am filtering out New York influences as I start to form and record a more intimate relationship with the land here. The Provo Canyon and Snow Canyon pieces are examples of this transition. The light in these has a silvery quality, the forms are angular not rounded and the spaces more vast not closed in and protected. In Utah, I feel forced to face the sky and light alone, open, and unprotected.

I am motivated to continue the process that I have scarcely begun, to explore the Utah landscape, to document what I see and feel here.