My creative process explores the strangers found in old photographs that I collect from various sources.  I breathe new life and meaning into forgotten identities.  My method of salvaging past memories takes on an intimate role - one of imaginary trust between my subjects in letting me gently pierce their souls with my needle and thread.

My work offers many things to the viewer.  Sometimes it offers up a message of importance passed along in a secret and sometimes it screams in a small voice.  Then there is the coaxed smile achieved by a story of amusement or the surfaced emotions that well up when the work makes a provocative suggestion. 

My art is driven by recurrent images of family, heartbreak, sex, illness and emergency which often translates into a cross between offering up discomfort or a hushed gentle pat on the back.  But usually my work gives way to a chuckle at life’s complications for me and the viewer.