Layered imagery and meaning using night projections of personal paintings and family archives on barns of family farms. 

Exploring human connection to the land has always been a central inspiration for making art.  Growing up on a family farm, my early work attempts to record the simplicity, balance and spirituality that may be found in natural and cultivated landscapes through that traditional genre.  Over time, however, my work has become more narrative, and with this series, Layers, involves an attempt to include the voices of the people who live and toil on this ground, past, present and future.  I want to pull these people back into direct view, into direct interaction with their progeny, through projections of family archives, my own figurative art works, and by including myself and others who connect with this place as part of a visual collage.  I am trying to layer us all back together onto an original canvas, on the farmland, on the structures built there.  I have added digital technology in combination with the more gentle illumination of the night to coax out the mystery, the conversation between the land and its inhabitants, and hear combined voices through these pieces.  I am indebted to those family members, now gone, whose own instinct and artistry captured some of the original imagery I have included in this work.

I see this series as the continuation of an ongoing personal investigation that is propelled by a broader concern for how we, as humans, view our work as stewards of the land and our world, and the interwoven future we as a species share here on Earth.