My work is influenced by prehistoric art. The essence of primitive art is distant yet familiar, representing the wild, the past, and the present – stripping away all that is unnecessary to remind us the meaning of being human within the realm of nature. Cultures emerge, are destroyed, and then replaced by new ones. We as a species are straying further from our roots, and I fear that our primitive beginnings will be forgotten. This inspires me to focus on Mother Earth and represent her through my mixed media and collage process.