Traditions and social practices are relevant to one’s location, culture, and experience. During the past few years my perspective has changed several times and my perceptions have been challenged. I have considered the relevance of ancestry in ancient European cities, religious influences evident in parts of the Arab world, and contemplated the evolution of the society in which I was raised, which is anything but static.

Through the process of image making, I often seek point of departure that is relevant to the moment. Through the process, the image is served and considered in relation to the subject that is nearly intuitively recorded on the plate through various techniques. I seek a conscious representation and analogies using mundane and/or common subjects that reference society, culture, and politics. I consider the images to be revealing and loaded. To me, there is fluid quality, which is not necessarily sequential or narrative but rather relies on connotations and references. I hope to include a substantial amount of information that references the intuitive thought process, while suggesting a sort of moment in time.

Within each composition there are several individual elements, which make up the whole; their placement is as important to the communication as the individual element themselves. The meaning that is adopted by generating work becomes a world of its own based on the world we live.

The processes of printmaking serve as a surface and vehicle to record marks that represent a moment in time and/or a thought process. Often the contemplation is not complete and reflects more simply an idea that is completed through the act of working through the process. There is not any concern for the logic or narrative, although many instances reveal an image relationship though the act of making a plate. Each composition is developed on or for the matrix, filing the space, which in turn serves the subject.

Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA [2005-present]

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Design. American University of Sharjah. United Arab Emirates [2000-2005]

Education
MFA University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA [2000]
BFA University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada [1997]

2006
Untitled: Ehlbeck, Muise, and Egan, Starlight Café, Greenville, North Carolina
Changing Tradition, The Carver Museum, Austin, Texas
CCA 25th Annual Competitive Competition, Kinston, North Carolina
49th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Dimensions 2006, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
19th Annual McNeese National Works On Paper Competition, Lake Charles, Lousiana
Paper in Particular 2006, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
2006 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo