Balancing Act: Artist Statement ---- draft

Throughout our lives, we manage, juggle and otherwise cope with a variety of life trials that come up.  Always we must look at each one, prioritize and then make a decision about what value we place on the issues we face.  Which one do we deal with first, or second, or never?  A full life or a mature life, means we juggle more and more of these issues.  Each day we wake up  and decide not just will we do that day (work, play, leisure) but what will we accomplish.  What will we think about?  What will we ignore? What will make it on our To Do List for another day?  Who will we reach out to and who will we run from?  Each day is a balancing act.  One that is filled with a hundred or more of these decisions made in a split second and oftentimes without conscious awareness.  This series of mixed media art pieces is bringing those actions to the forefront and acknowledging....