The main focus and medium is traditional glass neon.  Working with neon offers the convergence of art, craftmanship and science.  The golden triad in my mind.  Out of this comes a final piece that glows with life and transforms a space, and with luck, the viewer as well.   The ultimate for any artist is to move the viewers needle somewhat, relating them to an experience or a piece of their own life, allowing them to connect the dots within their own experiences.

I find inspiration within relationships with others.  My work explores the duality of love.  Paralleling humans, neon itself glows with life, it has a life within created through an electrical current which, somewhat unexplainable, illuminates in a warm magical way mimicking one’s soul.   And much like humans, an ever-present fragility exists.  Once neon breaks and the gas escapes, the life is lost.  This metaphor combinations to create emotionally driven, layered work.

With the award I would mount a themed collaborative open call exhibition wherein I would offer neon collaborations with other artists.  I feel it would be important to offer the collaboration to not only established artists but to up and coming artist offering a new outlet for their creative expression.  I have been making art all my life as a full-time career and I feel as though artists need to give back to the community in a dynamic way.