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STATEMENT OF WORK
I use color to create transportive places. The process starts as a combination of digital synthetic imagery and collage to create a rough sketch. My approach is then largely materials-focused. Color and paint chemistry are critical. Thin layers of oil paint are built up slowly to create depth—essentially the same methods used in 16th– and 17th–century painting. I prefer color experimentation over a set process, mixing forgotten pigments with modern ones in unexpected ways.
A place is a conduit for memory and belief. Places I’ve visited (or only read about) influence me — but also unrelated things like cartoons, album covers, the supernatural, memories, mythology, geology, urban planning, and anatomy can work their way into a picture. I follow no specific visual lineage. I am trying to capture what I see in my head omnivorously to create a world in which I would want to exist.
A painting can tell us things a photograph, or even a firsthand experience, cannot. Painting is painting. It is not a substitute for another medium. I do not want to make perfect images.