What early influences enhanced your visual appetite and desire to make things?
"When I was 9 years old I wrapped the entire backyard in string. I wove the string from one branch to the next, over to the fence, back to the tree, around the trunk, over and around until this great web appeared. There were lines everywhere, joining different objects and cutting up space in strange ways. I felt completely enchanted with the new environment and excited knowing I could rearrange reality.
On Easter, growing up, we were given large decorated eggs, colorful and lacey on the outside with an opening on one end to show scenes inside. I remember looking in, so fascinated with this miniature landscape, wanting to crawl inside this other world. Art has since become a way of building relationships between my interior and exterior worlds.
When I was a kid I remember always making things with my hands, cutting paper, gluing things together and coloring for hours and hours, lost in the world of construction and color. "
