In my last semester at the Rhode Island School of Design, I found a room in my schedule to add a lithography class with the great printmaker, Andrew Raftery. I instantly fell in love with the process. Lithography, making prints from drawings on Flintstone-like slabs of limestone, felt decidedly old-school. The drawing part, working with waxy crayons, was familiar enough but the process involved was not. There was the grinding of the stone by hand and the printing on a press powered only by a hand crank.

I have been trying to incorporate "space" into my work for some time, and I feel like this is a direct reaction to the moment we are living in, an artist's response per se. I started on watercolors to let my thoughts "warm up." I have been asking myself if I could paint space and chaos on the same plane if they could actually harmoniously exist side by side.

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” -Toni Morrison

…Beauty can mingle with raw emotion. It doesn't have to shrink back.

Beauty is inherent to the Universe and has an emotional life. It weaves through our life stories, helping us slip in and out of grief and frustration and guiding us to a better understanding of ourselves….