Artist's Statement

 

Purpose and intent are most important. Making people, and binding them to uncomfortable positions, provokes an intense dialogue between the creator and created, like a mirror of our own reality in discussion with my creator, and this parallel lends the finished paintings maturity.

I work to make life-like things on canvas. It is important not to bring bad work into the world like so much pollution, or frankensteins, especially if they are life-like.  What is life-like? 

 

My figures' identities are only in the paintings, not as depictions or copies. They are real and grow to inhabit their flat space the way a person inhabits their world to feel realized.  Existentially, these figures are made for people to stare at, which is unnatural, as is trying to be round on a flat surface.  These and other reasons make for a strange relationship  between the figure, the painter and the viewer.  

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Beauty, harmony, and the gratification of human acheivement are among the driving forces. My palatte is generally the same and limited as a challenge to adress different challenges. Limits imposed by the rectangle, pallete and theme help me to focus creativity.  It seems to me that creativity is found where there are boundaries.