As an artist and musician, in my current practice I work to unite the two forms capturing the fleeting essence of music within the permanent nature of art.

In response to some of my favorite scores, I have created a visual language that conveys my experience and love of music. Sometimes I will break down a piece of music into specific sequential segments and respond to each one visually. Other times I’ll create an artwork as an overall impression of a song. Improvisational jazz is most often the source of my inspiration. In paintings such as in the series “Round Midnight” I use blues, greens and blacks to capture the haunting, smoky mood of the melody. In other work, I draw using color pencils, pastel and graphite to capture the improvisational nature of jazz.

With my series “Mother Tongue” I composed a score interweaving my mother’s voice in which she talks about her creative process as an artist. The piece is repetitive in nature and structured so that the phrase “And that’s how I turned that picture into a rug” is spoken four times. Based on the music and voice I created drawings that reflect the elements of the score and the text. As my inspiration for these drawings I am influenced by the experimental scores of John Cage, George Crumb, and John Zorn.

The creation of the visual becomes a dialog with the auditory. Through the fusion of these two mediums I hope to expand the language of both.