Statement

My hope is to make tender, paradoxically harmonic paintings that may be inexplicable and yet speak.

Spirits of Inquiry

These paintings are little inquiries into the puzzles of existence. They utilize the intimacy of the small scale, where image and emotion may more quickly fuse, and where the restricted size of the picture plane may present a world both limited and infinite by its very self-containment. They attempt to express, in a gentle human hum, that time feels both quick and deep, love eternal and fleeting, memory firm and faded, and the sublime present and remote. At one moment one has access to realms of the numinous, at other times life presents as an assemblage of hard facts and suffering. We exist in connection to others, but slip into alienation. It is a wonder that an invented image, a bit of reformulated matter, speaks at all to another human being.  And yet, we all see creatively and live within and through an interpretation of the world. Slices of perception reach out: the language of colors, intimations of shared experiences, of symbols and shapes giving rise to memories and emotions.  I hope these paintings speak to the varieties of human experience, and find form for something meaningful and magical to another human mind.