The following description comes from the event organizer.

In my work, I paint forms, colors, and shapes in and out until the composition acquires a meaning and a congruency for me. I also use bits of unreadable writing that are symbolic to me of the elusive clues to the meaning of life and the conflicts among belief systems.

About 7 years ago, I began pouring watery paint mixtures on my works on paper to begin a painting. I discovered when I returned to the studio the next day, the pigments in the abstract pourings had moved around. They often created recognizable images, especially of animal life, but occasionally humans, and landscapes. The muse often hid the meaning of these forms and choices from me until later.

In this current body of work, it occurred to me that these heavy black forms and the indecipherable messages come from the muse and my unconscious fears that we in the world are not taking the steps needed to preserve all forms of life into the future on this planet (despite all the unfortunate changes we can observe and even experience). The featuring of cat imagery paired with my poet friend Cathy McGuire's poems about her rescues of feral cats touches something very deep in me that hates to admit that there is deliberate neglect and abuse of all living creatures.