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STATEMENT OF WORK
My newest body of work attempts to answer a question I’ve been asking myself for a long time: how specific a story do I want to tell? In my earlier paintings, forms had always hovered on the edge of recognizability. Often the narrative, such as it was, was visible only to me. But lately I’ve begun to feel an impulse toward story-telling, though ambiguity remains important to me. I want to suggest a story, but I also insist the viewer be invited to provide their own. Often my imagery conjures imaginary escape routes or solutions born of desperation. The cartoonish shapes and bright colors are a form of whistling in the dark, a way of warding off a deep pessimism about our earth’s fate.