STATEMENT OF WORK

More and more, I like to think of my work as “pictures of places.”

Place is not landscape or geography, city or town, location or coordinates. It is real, imaginary, both, and neither.

Place is something I arrive at in my paintings. Place is an internal headspace I mine for memories. Place is an emotional state in time. The body is a place as much as a room or a landscape is.

My work expands through iterations across different materials, allowing form and gesture to morph and accumulate new meaning as painting becomes sculpture becomes drawing, and so on. Iteration casts a line backwards through time, but change is equally inevitable.

Sitting with the uncertainty of change has become the most integral part of my artistic process. Ultimately, each work must get lost before it can be found. Displacement, in this case, becomes necessary to finding place.

Places are defined by who sees them, and from where. Vantage point matters. Some of my pieces are situated in the dark proximity of the underground. Others are aerial, distant, light, and diffuse. Sometimes the viewer is a bird, soaring over distant places, and sometimes they are a drill, burrowing into unknowable depths.

As we move through the world, our vantage point changes. Familiar places can become strange from different angles. We can lose sight of where we come from or where we are going. Location is a contingent and tectonic process.

We are all constantly finding and losing our place.