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| I am interested in confusion and entropy. I want my work to be puzzling at first, and then slowly clarify itself. I try to make my work dream like, but it is usually not based on specific dreams. I work with imagery that is connected and unconnected. Some elements relate to each other in a narrative sense, while other elements are placed in juxtaposition to the whole, and create meaning through their inclusion in an image that they do not fit into logically. I am interested in simultaneous and opposing thoughts, and what happens when two opposite versions of the same idea meet. | ||||||||
| Many of the images in my work relate to the states of consciousness: the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. Many of the characters in my work represent conscious thinking, or types of thoughts, or ways of thinking, turned loose into the broader world of thought. Architecture and other human works in my paintings often represent the subconscious ideas that society considers “sane” or “rational”, and provide a framework for the characters to live in. The landscapes, which are often poured paint, and much more chaotic, represent the unconscious, and create a plane on which the sum of human thoughts can roam free like animals in the wild, clashing for territory and preying on each other. I think of all of my paintings as scenes from the same world. | ||||||||
| I use the idea of scale relationship as it was used in ancient art, where the most important, or most powerful character is depicted largest. I also work with the idea of inside and outside. In much of my work the viewer is both inside and outside simultaneously. I want to explore the dichotomy of humans as rational and spiritual beings vs. the savage animal nature of Humanity. Transparency and texture are also important to me. I use various different types of oil and water based paints, and spray paints as well as powdered pigments and polyurethane and I allow them to react to each other in order to create the landscapes of my paintings. | ||||||||
| I feel that these ideas are important. It is a way to express myself which allows me to learn about myself, by personifying my random thoughts and then letting them roam free and observing them. Many of the individual elements in my work have a set meaning to me, but this meaning often changes radically while I’m painting. For instance, the gunhead characters I use represent violence or very aggressive ambition, and often are part of a regime of other such characters. Other characters represent innocence, such as the eggheads, who represent un-hatched ideas, or the people who go through life unaware of the way things really are, while a hatching egghead represents the recently self aware. | ||||||||
| I would like the viewers of my work to respond to the individual elements of my work, and then relate them to each other, and to the whole. My imagery represents personified thoughts, which interact, sometimes peacefully, often violently, with each other and their environment. Any specific interpretation of the whole is individual and personal. It is the process of how these thoughts interact to form a meaning for the whole that is important to me. | ||||||||
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