After many years of working on ephemeral work, site specific, durational, interactive and immersive performance, I have returned to object making. Not that performance work has been left behind but painting was my first true love.

It has been interesting seeing if, one, I still had the chops TO create 3d work, and if I still had the desire.

It required getting a studio ready, and what luxury, I have that now.

I’m still loving the experiment.

I’m focused now, on my response to the environmental and political struggle of our times.

What does it mean to create art in the face of smoke from Canada, drought, floods…?

Can there be beauty?