With my work, a pendulum swings between painstaking figurative endeavors and lighter, more improvisational works. With the figurative and representational works, there is the labor and the drafting, the mistakes and the improvements. However with the improvisational bodies of work, there is more abandon. It’s athletic and gutsy. These bodies of work are often distillations of technique or skill, pushed beyond rigid control and imbue lightness and levity to the page. For years I have been working serially, in which both modes of practice are at play. When these methods saddle up to one another, a new language is revealed and a broader interpretation of aesthetics, narrative and abstraction unfolds. The chemistry between images excites me and more accurately represents how I interact with the world.
