S T A T E M E N T

I care deeply about the appearances of the entire physical world and believe that aesthetic sensibilities are powerful and transformative forces. With my painting I depict the combination of confusion and clarity our urban and wilderness landscapes instill as they entangle one with another or jut out in solitary defiance. Of special interest to me is the atmosphere of dreaming and the objects that materialize when I try to paint everything at once. In my own dreaming flesh and stone might flow together as one object or mountainous terrain might take on the qualities of a silk drapery. I’m trying to create an object that is between what I have seen and felt. My painting is a mixture of vision and construction that is self-contained but hopefully provides glimpses of a world where everything has been driven through the blender of that passionately peaceful and chaotic emotion of awe before an indifferent and stunningly beautiful nature.

With photography I refine and investigate the river of objects around me for posterity, reference, and as an almost unconscious application of aesthetic values that are hungry to be swept along into something new or unknown.