My focus is on the beauty and enigma of light and color. Light can energize or subdue pigments; both effects are sublime. This action fosters an experience of time and brings the viewer into the current moment. In unison with concepts developed by the Light and Space artists, the phenomena of light and shadow in natural environments are my foundational core.
I crave beauty and work to reduce the visual to utter simplicity. My paintings embody a dynamic between being fully realized abstract paintings and remaining arrested moments in a state of undoneness. Making paintings is a process of accumulating observations. The colors and gestures are markers of time and change, and place.
Buddhist philosophy has taught me nothing is permanent. As homage to impermanence, I make work that shifts in appearance due to changes in light and the viewer’s location relative to the artwork.
Translucent supports allow the changing light in the room to pass through the paint, at times casting shadows against the wall, making the artwork dynamic, and reminding us life is always changing. I make artwork to see the mutual interaction between body, mind, and environment.
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