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uh yes i was born outside in detroit michigan i grew up there my whole life and um i went to wayne state university uh studied uh textile and clothing design and i also have been a designer at automotive designer at ford motor company and chrysler corporation retired six years ago my daughter lives here so i wanted to be close to family and that's how i arrived here i've always painted and drawn and worked with my hands i taught myself to sew when i was probably 10 years old and started making my own clothes and that kind of evolved into um into clothing design and then
from clothing design i couldn't find the textiles that i like liked so i started printing and weaving and and painting on fabric from then from there i took jewelry which i absolutely love working with metal and then into sculpture in bronze and uh iron and steel which i absolutely loved and then from there i um started to um i guess that all that studying and all that information translated really well into automotive design and i was a design manager for 20 years which um was a wonderful experience and it also taught me a lot of uh it taught me about processes and that processes process
has been translated or transferred into my understanding of deeper understanding of art in my life my goodness i'm still exploring i i would say more abstract sometimes figurative figurative um i really love um creating or or sharing information mark making and information with color um i i it's really more abstract seeing things i mean everybody sees things differently so it's wonderful to be able to express myself with color and with shapes and with design and share that information with others the primary at this time is print making i started uh three years ago um i'd never i had never done printmaking i was a painter
and did encaustic and weaving as i said in textile design but it just seemed like it was something that i was drawn to only because i did not have the information i appreciated buying prints from other artists but i i was really intrigued on on what that process is and so i started at brook haven college and it's been a really wonderful experience exploring um different types like woodcut i like working with my hands and then again metal i i do um italia which is with the copper plate and also um photo revere which is with a steel plate but it's always transferring information onto
a surface that's reversed so it's like you look at it but it's kind of a mirror image in in your mind you have to think opposite in order to create something that's visually correct for uh for others but i i again love working with my hands i love the process of color and mixing color also the layering the techniques of layering with the difference processes that's what i'm exploring now so each each time you know i print a print whether it's successful or not it's such an incredible learning experience for me and i really really enjoy that the process of learning and i look forward
to doing it for the rest of my life some are realistic um uh some are landscape or just like a snippet of something that's familiar maybe let's say probably you know a flower or scene and then what you what i do is i layer it so it just becomes um kind of it's like a story to where you know you have the background and then you have you know maybe a second layer and a third layer and then you can go in some of my work i go in and i watercolor it so it's it's that process that when i finish it's about a balance
of a piece so i guess it's about balance and building you know to create a final project or final piece absolutely absolutely i um in michigan um i studied kabbalah for about seven years and i grew up in a jewish community i'm not jewish i'm catholic but um it so influenced me um it's very rich and i definitely relate to um its concepts and it's pretty for me i would say it's universal but it's beautiful color to me is um very i would say it's spiritual but also it's very healing i think um the different colors you know in the world in the combinations and
how it can you know i would say evoke your senses you know i think it's pretty magical um and to me it's very exciting working with it and also creating you know magic with it you know that you know it can evoke some feeling with others or with a viewer i would say well um one of the pieces that i've made it's um the first letter in the hebrew hebrew alphabet it's a leaf and um i the shape is wonderful i've had a book of the alphabet for a really long time and i wanted to incorporate it so i had these layers where the first
one was a color graph in a call graph is where you can [Music] like mold or shape um a surface and then you can ink it and you can print with it that was my first layer my second layer was an intelio which is a copper plate that that i had inscribed and then i took the leaf and i um kind of sandwiched to sandwiched it in between it in method is called um sheen cole so was able to you put like a paste on it and you were able to kind of in the pressure bring all three of those surfaces together and i it's
very um oh to me that's part it's very healing and it's very comforting to me to be able to create that piece i do you know it's very subjective so i i hope that i can um they can take away you know a sense of mystery you know something that you can identify with but you know you approach it in a different way just because of the way that it's it's put together so uh i i don't know it to me they're just very magical and you know it's the viewer if they're if they're drawn to it wonderful i mean i mean it's there to
to evoke any emotion whether alike or just like it's okay it's just pieces that need to come out into the world
