Artist Statement
Through my work I capture the souls of vanishing people; the discarded, the unwanted, the executed. Bringing them back to life so that their dignity may be shared through these monumental portraits of our “Indigenous Tribes”.
In the tradition of artists among the nations, who have used material of earth and animal to create and embellish their culture. I too use leather and wood to document the cultures we are losing to modernization and the shrinking diversity of our planet. In a world where languages are being lost daily by the last member of a tribe taking their language to the grave, where the “uncivilized” are dying of hopelessness and genocide, where we are reduced to consumers and given a market value that seems less than human, in a world that values money over human life, I bring you “Indigenous Tribes”.
I celebrate the diversity of the human race and hope that these important cultures will continue to thrive throughout the 21st century and beyond.
