"During my artist residencies in NYC, Brooklyn and at Rogers Lake, I worked on landscape painting and made works, paintings, monotype and solar prints, portraying landscapes and cityscapes.  I paint landscapes and the figure and I feel I approach the subject matter the same way. I guess my perception, my observing as I paint, has the same 'quality' throughout my subject matter, in that I bring my expectations to my sight, which then shapes my perception. Siri Hustvedt writes 'We see what we expect to see. We do not passively receive information from the world but are rather creative interpreters of it.' Joke Hermsen, a Dutch philosopher and author writes 'isn't the landscape that we see always the landscape we color with our life stories and our memories?' I saw gentle dragons on Rogers Lake ... In afterthought, I guess that looking at artworks is an exhange, a dialogue between the work, the viewer and the artist, each party bringing their life experiences into the encounter. I find that intriguing and part of the beauty and comfort art can offer."
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