About My Art
Art has always been a creative outlet for me, a
way to take tremendous negative energies and "get something positive"
out of my difficult world. Creating things has always given me
much satisfaction, an opportunity to feel good about myself, and a way
to get something from nothing. Its never been about being a victim
or a survivor of some tragedy or loss. Its about getting and
having a backbone, its about transcending the obstacles. I grew up in a
large chaotic family in Detroit during a time of racial rioting and
economic unrest.
My brothers and sister and I were abused and
abandoned. We were unable to stay together as a family. After
homelessness as a teenager and two abusive marriages, I put myself through
graduate school while raising my children, and not without years of
counseling and self help. But for me it has never been about why this
all happened to me, rather, what am I doing now to better myself.
After those years of crisis and intense, often
unbearable situations, I now thrive on advance problem solving. This
need to solve problems is passionately fulfilled within my artistic
creations. But it becomes so much more than that when I share one of these
creations with someone else. Then it becomes a symbol of peace and
refuge. I feel connected to the world in a positive and healing
way through my art.
I share my art by making gifts.
