The human soul interacts with the world through our senses; smell, taste, touch, sight, hearing - we need that contact at the very core of our being. Painting and printmaking have long been thought of as strictly visual art, unavailable to those without sight. I've tried to change that. Doing so has forced me to re-examine my work from a new perspective, to learn to speak in the same creative words in a different way- transforming colors into textures and patterns that translate visual images into tactile impressions. Along the way, I've realized just how much touch there is even in my visual work. For years, I've been focused on 'bringing the hand' back into digital art, through many new processes and techniques that I've invented.
