I make abstract paintings that often incorporate found objects such as cardboard or paper coils, seeds, branches or sticks. I’m interested in organic patterns and playing with the surface of the work. Sometimes I carve into layers of poured paint or resin with hand tools or my dremel. Sanding down surfaces with a belt sander exposes layers with interesting textures. Some pieces get thin layers of roofing tar to give an aged or weathered feel.
The work is a meditation on the layered complexity of nature, technology, relationships and community, and the feeling and meaning inherent within.
The carved trails insects leave on the underside of bark. The textures I picture in my mind when I listen to My Bloody Valentine. The beauty of a wall of peeling paint. Cracked dry lake beds. Blood vessels. Being an individual in a family. And in a community. Maps. Cellular structures. Outer space.
There’s a beautiful mystery of the overlapping layers of connectedness.
I seek to see the meaning, and want to capture the feeling of witnessing it, and the joy of appreciating it. Of wanting to be a part of it.