The medium of mixed media collage lends itself well to developing a visual vocabulary for describing and translating my experiences. I live a life that calls me in many different directions – My life is a path of seeking order in chaos, peace in conflict, wholeness in fragmentation, creative action in the context of destructive action. Collage is a both a process and a medium in which I can most naturally give voice to that creative tension. I use the fragments of my life (found and created images) to translate my experiences into something else, something hopefully better than what existed prior.