STATEMENT OF WORK

These largerst works are paintings. Alongside the paintings I also make works on paper, drawings and sculpture from found and reused materials. The various bodies of work are summary to me in this sense: they establish contexts for comparison with each other and enrich the choices I make in studio. It is a day-to-day learning process that occasionally reveals moments in which a brand new work will carry me back to something from the 1990s, for instance, and I get to say, "Oh...that's what that piece was about".

These paintings too are abstractions. To be "abstract" art is not supposed to resemble something else in our seen world. It is nature's motion and time filled process, however, that produces what we know, what is around us, and what we are, in the context of the non-human part of nature.

I rely on what is delivered from earlier experience. In that sense it often seems that work guides me, or bosses me toward fruitful paths. The most recent works use paint to border the ink transfer shapes. The resultant "image" simultaneously resembles organic, cellular structure and/or outer space views of Micronesia or the Aegean Islands. The "foreground" of the ink transfer merges with the "background" of the paint or the white of the substrate. Primacies are non-existent as forms/shapes slip back and forth with each other. Metaphorically this is my hope for our human and cultural condition: that various populations can merge, swing back and forth, finding balance and equity along the way.