I paint in stages and layers that teeter between pointed accuracy and erratic distortion. Drafted linework upon brushed foundation builds structure; while obliteration (i.e. scratching, smearing, lifting) ironically gives the picture life. This self-taught way of painting sanctifies opposing forces to create and destroy, and fashions my decision process of what to paint.
This recent work explores spatial coherence diluted just shy of unfamiliar; the balance between controlled achitectural space and obscured pictorial space. Like a photograph where imagery is developed, my sensibility aims to pull forms out from beneath and to paint into the surface. I hope to simulate an exposure setting that records the hurrying of multiple layers built up and torn down, and the stillness of focusing their blur.
