The Invisible Thread

This portfolio explores the nebulous boundary between the sacred and the profane in Florida's everyday environment. Returning to my home state after 30 years, I found inspiration in scenes once overlooked or deemed unappealing. In my eyes, Florida was filled with tourist attractions and strip malls, highlighting a widespread, national disconnect from place, heritage, and the land.

Prior to my return, I anticipated feeling disdain toward the aspects of Florida once deemed soulless. Instead, there was a sense of acceptance and warmth in coming home. The years away had taught me to love and appreciate the rejected parts, including the feeling of not knowing where I belonged — rootless, like a strip mall, with no meaning or ties to history or my Florida heritage.

Whether we categorize a place or a feeling as acceptable or unacceptable is less meaningful than the invisible thread that runs through all things, expressing the whole in its own beautiful way. This portfolio’s color, light, geometry, and occasional flower represent this thread.

By highlighting the often-missed beauty in mundane scenes, I invite you to explore the metaphor and work with the duality found in each of us which is then translated into our external environment. My intention is to encourage viewers to contemplate their experience of both inner and outer landscapes, fostering curiosity for the facets of existence once mistaken for unacceptable and opening to wholeness in each expression of that which is both profane and profoundly sacred.