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Navigation explores how we travel, outwards and inwards at the same time. The painting mirrors rivers with veins and arteries, the waterways of the world with the bloodstream and heart inside us. To navigate is to find one's way. The silhouetted woman stands for all people, how we travel through the world and in our thoughts across all the possible meanings of "finding your way."

Animating my art are two desires: to illustrate myth- images that suggest dreams and stories from the collective stream of consciousness, and to keep an ambiguous familiarity with mortality, that mystifying and often terrifying essence of ourselves, where celebrating life and embracing the equal reality of death entwine. The mix of collage and oil paint is a way for me to assemble an idea out of disparate parts, partly expressed through its process. Collage is a process of collision and re-creation. I appreciate rough, cut edges, the feel of different papers, the build-up of oil paint strokes and ridges. Photos in our media and daily life are an integral part of how we communicate information, ideas, and emotions. Incorporated into...