Artist Statement
	My paintings explore the relationship of the sacred to everyday life.  Whereas the sacred is typically treated as something distant and foreign- a place to find or a goal to be met- I use art as a means to reconcile it with the seemingly mundane and profane.  I combine scenes of contemporary culture with religious and mythological symbolism so as to question established notions of where and what the sacred is.          Although I have worked  diligently with oils and received many awards for those paintings, I found them unable to fully express my themes.  I required works that glow with their own internal light, so I developed the Albedo Paintings which are created with white paint on white fabric.  When lit from behind with ultraviolet black-lights, the paint appears dark against an etherally glowing blue ground.  Essentially, it is a reversal effect which creates a visible world of black and white out of Albedo; a blank, white philosopher's stone.  Currently I am experimenting with irridescent paints and glass micro-beads which cause radiant color changes as a viewer walks before them.  Images will likely be available on the website in early 2005.