"I learned from Semiotics that in choosing to repeat certain things, they gain significance and turn into something else—turn into a different sign for different things."

—Keith Haring

I make poems, paintings, scrolls, and works on paper, inspired by the search for new forms that beg the question:

My process converts the English alphabet with letters based on sounds to a system of new signs based on ideas, meanings, objects. In other words, I reform our alphabet from sonograms into ideograms. I call this reformed alphabet Matersigns.

Like hieroglyphic and historical alphabets, and like Asian & Arabic languages, my 26 basic signs can combine to form complex ideas, objects, meanings. Because my art practice includes writing and reading poems, I integrate poetic texts into my visual art, written in the Matersigns alphabet.

The work is the changing mind.