My themes are interior, exterior, and reflection. At night, my window blends the streetscape with my studio’s reflection and I am intrigued with the merging spaces and associations that arise. Yet the pictures begin with the scene and aim to move deeper, beyond what is seen. Often the invisible is what is most evocative and by offering the viewer a context in which essential details are veiled, I leave things open to interpretation. Both night and daylight are often engaged for obscuring qualities.
My inspirations come in a flash and I hope to convey that initial excitement. When I begin to work, I am often dependent on the ephemeral; a slant of light, a certain season, a subject in a temporary state. When the state passes, I often put the work aside until the motif reappears. However, by the time the drawing is finished, the site may be vastly different than when I started; trees have come down, houses have new additions, etc. The exhibited work is an abstracted accumulation of many different experiences and events.
Variation in size, shape, edge, surface, and technique are critical issues for me. At any one time I am developing many drawings and I often work them for years by building up layers of pigment and paper and breaking them back down with erasures, scrubbing, and revisions. The surfaces evolve over these extended periods leaving pentimenti, a history of growth, and at times, stirring apparitions among the evaporating and reconstituting elements.
After years of scrutiny, my subjects have continually accrued greater meaning and mystery for me. As I evolve with them, I aim to come to deeper levels of awareness and to more fully interpret the magic and mystery behind the surface of things.