Artist Statement (2010)
My work is a mapping process of recording the structures and forms that create my mental landscape. While I live in a world that is shared, individually there are other realms that require solidarity: isolation from the collective. Nobody can hold my hand in the darkness; assure me with a momentary promise; or overwhelm me with hollow intimacy. This is what I see in the darkness behind my eyelids.
The fleshy terrain is scarred from use –disfigured and jagged. Scale and color palette choices mimic the unsettling pressure of these living landscapes. Emotional wounds take on a physical representation within this dimension. The pulsing tissue of the ground plane echoes gooey blobs of a hot lava lamp. It is a foggy atmosphere where details are forbidden. I use rigid linear marks paired with planar geometry influenced by Francis Bacon and Richard Diebenkorn: tension between the compact and the free. The compression of energy speaks to the way Julie Mehretu knots her explosive compositions in a tangled mess. These horizontal lungs expand and contract. Underneath, the infection lives and swells.
The fleshy terrain is scarred from use –disfigured and jagged. Scale and color palette choices mimic the unsettling pressure of these living landscapes. Emotional wounds take on a physical representation within this dimension. The pulsing tissue of the ground plane echoes gooey blobs of a hot lava lamp. It is a foggy atmosphere where details are forbidden. I use rigid linear marks paired with planar geometry influenced by Francis Bacon and Richard Diebenkorn: tension between the compact and the free. The compression of energy speaks to the way Julie Mehretu knots her explosive compositions in a tangled mess. These horizontal lungs expand and contract. Underneath, the infection lives and swells.
