My work begins as an intangible feeling, a feeling that is always familiar yet I can never satisfyingly describe. This feeling is a thread that is woven throughout our history, environments, and senses. The thread is at once time and energy connecting one point of view to another. By following this thread, and essentially plumbing the depths of consciousness, my paintings represent a reckoning with my reality by recognizing the multitude of connections to history, memory, current events, isolation, and the human condition. My imagery often comes from photos taken by me or at times from exploring intuitive mark making.
Whether specific or vague, photographic or imaginative, my hope is to imbue the work with certain physical senses akin to this familiar unfamiliar or dissociative feeling. What comes to mind is a high note ringing in the ears, the ambient and complex sustained tone, or the deafening quality of silence, stillness, a flash photograph, a moment in time, a pondering.