Distance

Distance: how far apart things are or feel.

Small things shift the distance I experience: a kind word, a thoughtful gesture, something shared.

I can feel distant from someone in the same room, yet close to someone a thousand miles away.

With art I feel close to the possibility of sharing the better part of me. For me, art is the antidote to the insecurity and dislocation of distance, near and far.

The Chance to Understand

I am told I look too long and too intensely at others, but despite my efforts not to impose I find myself spellbound by the inner world of strangers, as by those I know.

People are my endless source of fascination. I am drawn to those things that lay beyond the shell, the furtive gaze, their tone of words, the truth of how another feels.

To uncover is to find. To find I have the chance to understand.

Emotion and Making

As I work on a new piece of music I listen as much to how it moves me as to its evolving beauty.

I stand outside myself and within.

It is the same for the making of images and the building of words. For art to work well it makes me feel.