Artist Statement
"There is a middle road between understanding nothing and understanding too much, a juste milieu which poets instinctively respect more than their critics."
- Eugenio Montale
Many of these paintings employ a complex visual language; in fact the use of visual semiotics may be the actual subject of the images. Although abstract, they clearly present a narrative; not the expansiveness of a novel but the honed, distinct language of a poem in which form and meaning must correspond. Because the imagery is derived from nature and employs geometric symbols and ciphers, the images remain visually polysemous. This, along with the accretion and repetition of pattern, support an endless succession of meanings.
- Marilyn Greenberg