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STATEMENT OF WORK
On the canvas, I want to create moments of recognition that dissolve into uncertainty. Washy, thin oil paint intermingles with lines and dense stacking of shapes. I want what is in a painting to be seen as both non-substantive and significant. I want the paintings to substantiate each other, undo each other, and create something that can not be found on any individual canvas. I am uncertain what that something is and want it to be unfixed, malleable, mercurial, and easily collapsed into absence.
I was trained as a neuroendocrinologist and have worked within a framework where logic and
certainty dominate. Uncertainty is not a valid result. Approaching fact through the lens of uncertainty is not a valid process. My relationship with painting offers a reprieve from the supremacy of concrete knowing; when I paint, I can be with a way of questioning that does not need answers. I work from imagination and a well of partial and dissociated images, relying on the coexistence of indeterminacy and something that can be more clearly known. Painting is my chosen medium because painting exists as a clash of oppositions: it both constructs objects that offer their version of reality and builds meaning within an entrenched material history.
The absence of a quantifiable result is not worthy of permanence within the scientific paradigm.
The absence of a quantifiable result is an aspiration in my creation of a painting.
The act of painting contains an inherently secret aspect that extends beyond the confines of the artwork itself. When a painting is contemplated by a viewer, it is perceived as an entity meant to be observed. It remains incomplete and ambivalent, with spaces of emptiness, yet it exudes vitality and evokes a connection with the body. It serves as a platform for experiencing sensations, thoughts, memories, anticipations, and fusions. The actual physical substance of oil paint is flexible, slippery, and malleable: an ideal set of properties for work that tries never to settle on meaning. The image is fluid, the result of the liquid dispersion of pigment across an absorbent surface.