My work is totally visual, and addresses the sense of sight directly and exclusively. It bypasses the turnstile of thought, words in single file, and instead addresses the nervous system and its assumptions about the world all at once. The mundane images are intended to cause a disruptive spike in the process of recognition that reaches all the way to conscious awareness each time they’re seen. If this is achieved, the painting would become an enduring presence instead of fading with familiarity, and for me, this single attribute is a sufficient measure of success.
I decided to pursue art independently, painting in the same studio for forty years while also working for wages in factories, taking contract printing in the studio, and accepting anything else that helped pay rent and buy supplies. I’ve produced a highly personal body of work expressed in the common vocabulary of daily experience, accessible and explicitly familiar.
I paint with one primary color at a time, each reduced to transparency in acrylic medium, with secondary colors mixing on the canvas, back to front. This results in a smooth waxy finish with a sense of surface depth. Foundations are studio-built.