Artist Statements
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I don't know what I'm gonna do in the beginning. It's not an itinerary. Sometimes I try to get out in front by forcefully seeing things. But that's always wrong. You can't discover what you already know. You can't see what doesn't exist yet. You can manufacture what you already know, but that's something else and that isn't the kind of thing that interests me. So a big part of it is winging it. Winging it with joy, trepidation, courage, humor, and pure why the fuck not.What's best is to get your head right in the beginning, accurate as an assassin. Then do something. & respond to that honestly & deeply & with all the love you can muster. Over and over and over again till you're done.
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I like to think of myself as a very constructed painter with no experience in construction.
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My paintings are a direct byproduct of intense involvement with improvisational music and free-verse poetic composition. They are about expressive freedom, dramatic and evolutionary movement, balance and integrity/synthesis, and ultimately about natural order. What drives movement is tension. I like to think of my paintings as places where the most divergent and unexpected things collide, converging at just the right time into articulate realizations of new compositional possibilities.
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My paintings have narratives
that are wound throughout
the compositions
the compositions are easy to see
but the narratives are hard to read
because they are mythical
in nature
and real
but altered