Careful examination of the subject reveals a tendency toward obsession concerning the interplay of edges, boundaries and points of change or conflict. This tendency is displayed throughout the manipulation of all media investigated in this study. A casual scan of the material presented for review points to an involvement with the spiritual and material realms of experience as well as an interest in the significance of wilderness and/or states of wildness in domestic reality. Repetitive patterning and color grouping suggest a personalized visual language demonstrating a profound belief in the ability of form and pattern to communicate inarticulate experience. Evidence suggests an adherence to the idea that material forms are malleable and any given event or object may by its presence or action in a given situation be a vehicle of communication rather than the representation of itself.

Subject experiences heightened states of awareness when in the presence of certain patterns, forms or gestures. Concurrent with these altered states is an increased sensitivity to beauty. Allowing that theses states may form the foundation for the experience of beauty by bridging two or more realms of understanding, subject pursues theses incendiary patterns and forms in hopes of clarifying the means to this sensitivity. Success is not quantifiable as each move towards goal leads subject further from assessable progress. The idea of wildness and careful study of wilderness plays extensively in the vocabulary utilized affords the context for most of the recurrent thought forms. Subject's ability to sustain balance among these realms of experience while retaining the context of insights won remains indeterminate.

~Donna Rose