I intend these paintings to operate as tools for recalibrating perception. They present a concentrated arena in which to experience simultaneous, interwoven, contradictory spaces and states of being.
Dynamics of accumulation underpin my paintings. This focus comes from time spent in the company of obsessive–compulsive hoarders amidst their congested environments. Immersion in their self-made worlds has caused me to wonder about processes of preservation, how things are saved and to what end both personally as well as culturally. That the past and the present can coexist, that material possessions can stand in for psychological states and more generally the space of the mind are ideas I find especially compelling. In light of these thoughts and experiences I undertake to mirror the ecstasy and catastrophe knit into the impulse to have access to everything.
Structures found within technology, the sciences, nature and architecture provide the internal organization and logic for my paintings. Through successive layers I inset intricate geometries within what seems to be sinking archipelagos and dissolving perspectival systems, which are themselves the residue left over from past layers. In this way spaces emerge, transform and then decay, always leaving a trace in the final painting. A self-imposed rule dictates that every layer remain partially visible, and to this end I use processes where all strata are interwoven through a series of cancellations and resurrections. I look for moments of intensity where the cross-communication of dissimilar patterns form a moirŽ effect in the mind that can lead to thinking visually in interpenetrating information fields- the main subject of my work.
Ultimately, my paintings offer an integrated set of visual terms for the experience of multiple and ever more permeable realities. How does the mind consolidate an image that combines both the physical and the virtual? How does it look to have the visual terms of both the material and non-material spaces coexist simultaneously? It is here in this nexus of physical and virtual space that I aim to build a set of terms for thinking and being.
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