Legends aren’t born…

With limited time in a hectic schedule, I believe in working daily to build momentum and balancing a healthy mix of creative bursts with time for pause and reflection.  My most successful pieces include a recipe of experimentation, failure, thoughtful critique, perseverance, self doubt, blind faith, happy accidents and hard work.

At the heart of my work is a sustained investigation into the odd juxtapositions present in the American West, my current series investigates the recurring visual motif of pink cowboy toy figures. These objects, which originally anchored my photographic explorations in the late 1990s and early 2000s, have recently returned to the center of my studio practice, bridged across decades by a fresh perspective on time, societal pressures and identity.

This revival was sparked unexpectedly in 2025 by a simple question from my young son, asking what I wanted to be when I grew up. Standing at fifty, that inquiry reframed how I view my legacy, prompting me to unearth old studio props and reexamine how our past informs our present realities. The pink cowboy figures transformed from cheap plastic relics into agents of dialogue, allowing me to question traditional notions of masculinity, nostalgia and stories surrounding Western mythology.

Today, my work continues to expand across multiple mediums, moving seamlessly between sculpture, fine art photography and digital media.  By balancing the grit of frontier iconography with the playful, subversive subtext of a hyper-saturated color palette, I aim to create images where viewers can confront their own preconceptions of history and myth.