ARTIST STATEMENT

With light color exists, and color itself denotes life. Light is also associated with knowledge, hope, warmth, and energy. In architecture, light is utilized as an element of design. If you consider how the architecture of the prison cells limited the amount of light that made its way in, that light becomes more precious to the person in the cell or in solitary confinement. Psychologically, this may have been the only element of hope present in such an environment. Light is extremely important because it becomes the only source of visual escape from imprisonment and isolation… We are free to experience the vastness of light every day when we walk outside into the sun. This body of work was influenced by those who were not, and are not, free.