Lines of Flight

As a viewer (or listener, as it may be), I often wonder at the creative ingenuity of artists. How in the world do they manage that brush control, or conceive putting those notes of that instrument together with those of this instrument?! And for years, as an artist I wanted to ‘do that’. My misconstrued need to be something and do something only served as a pressure cooker, rarely allowing me to fully connect with my artwork. I thus took a long break and instead focused on developing a career as a translator.

Interestingly, my work as a translator changed the way I thought and pushed me back to my artwork. It led me to think more relationally and opened up a desire to blur the lines between subject/object and creator as well as the environment/ viewer and creator. Moving subjects/objects become co-composers: seagulls grab hold of both my camera and the viewer, leading us in, around and through Rome’s Campo de´ Fiori, pigeons pull us into deep dives, swooping across the market’s tented roofs and sparrows guide us on short, fast paced flights in and around Fontana di Trevi’s early morning spectators.