Painting to me is the dénouement to every story I have lived or starred in…

The coup d'etat is the covert knowledge of possessing assertive and confrontational behaviors. I have read "Being Peace" and I really want to engage and digest Buddhist teachings but, why does humanity have to be so rude?

I paint because living in a passive aggressive and emotionally repressed Prozac Nation - feeling comfortably numb is safe. Being medicated is the status quo---I cope by painting.

My medium is the rapier wit I infuse in my paintings to achieve some satisfaction or get a reaction. I use acrylics and with the help of family and friends build my boards to paint on.

I will never be from the schools of the Atelier or from L'Ecole Des Beax-Artes, I paint because it brings me peace, it engages me to push myself to other levels and I need to get things out in a tangible form. In order to get the last word I have to confront the issue, battle armor on and be able and willing to see the action or conversation go through. Sometimes, it is painful and you may be forced to compromise, cry, be mean, or resolve something instead of hoping it goes away. Coincidentally my favorite goddess of Greek Mythology was Athena due to her wisdom and her warrior tendencies. I never associated myself with Aphrodite.

My last words are my paintings which is similar to the exclamation point or period at the end of sentences in my eyes.

Being a Joan of Arc for my causes and others is derivative or my nature to find justice through perseverance and sometimes revenge.

My steady diet of Tarantino, Mamet and Scorcese films give me the energy to paint my feelings no matter how awful or ugly they are.

Women are supposed to be pretty, docile, polite, not too macho….the anti-thesis of what I grew up to be. My paintings reveal the frailties in the Cinderella myth and the belief in oneself and manifesting your own destiny. I tend to be the subject of most of my paintings because it is from my eyes which absorbs, detracts and reflects the light and darkness which is everyday life. Hang on to your ego like Brian Wilson once sang….and Frank Black covered…

I am always too involved in my head and being a brainiac has its faults-but, nobody is perfect and I still lose my keys.

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