My practice is the culmination of an insistence on calligraphic gesture; scripting language and granting propensity to the line. Methods are informed by a Zen influence: no attachment to outcome, each painting a captured moment of presence.
I derive immense joy from the rapid gesture of the line, and from the slow, studious deliberation that follows. I’m fascinated by polarities: the intention or non-intention of a painting, the rapidity or the slowness, my ears full of music or silence, the clarity or illegibility of a word or phrase.
Though transfigured by abstraction, the painting contains the whole of its title within its content. Musically motivated, this lyrical and rhythmic precedence shapes the outcome of each work.
Just Believe and You Can’t Go Wrong is derived from Led Zeppelin’s In the Light. The painting abstracts and metabolizes its lyrical influence, metamorphosing into a new translation; a new language, a new object, imbued with the song’s essence yet carrying its own light, colored by personal experience, fleeting feeling, and present intensity.
Everybody needs a light.