Noos-letter of the Foundation for the Law of Time

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What is your artform and/or vision?

My vision and purpose as an artist/designer, is to repurpose. As a painter I was still journeying and I actually miss painting. Once I incorporated the pieces of a plastic water bottle into my work my vision shifted. This material became my new medium as the journey became more universal, more vital, and less personal. In 2009 I shifted my category from "painter" to "environmental artist". I'm doing my best to save the world one bottle at a time. On occasion I am still commissioned to paint a portrait. I do them in small format and as heirlooms. My most coveted contract however, is with Mother Earth. My dream is to create "The Recycle Design Center" and a web series starring Delphine (my sculpture), who is 6 feet tall and a poster child for repurposing in an elevated esthetic.

Who are your main artistic inspirations/influences?

In my formative years, Pablo Picasso and Henry Matisse were my super heroes. Moving forward, Dan Flavin for his sculptures with light. The 1860's log cabin quilts of the developing American West, and quilts of the Amish and the women who made and designed them. These women were heroines of repurposing and creating practical beauty. The Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla inspired me to portraiture. Installation photographer Gregory Colbert and his work on Ashes and Snow. His relationship to nature and his shift in the way art is seen and sold. Author Daniel Pinchbeck's and his book Notes From the Edge Times and finally two architects, Michael Reynolds, The Garbage Warrior & Samuel Mockbee, Citizen Architect.

What does the phrase "Time is Art" mean to you?

For me Art is timeless. As artists our responsibility is to our time. We will perish and (hopefully) leave behind art that reflects our struggle, our thinking and our story all within the short parentheses of our time. While we are here we reorder time in chronicles and in visuals, when we're gone the art remains and becomes timeless.