My work often plays with the tension between what one can and cannot control. These paintings, particularly those on canvas, often rely on thinned out paint bleeding onto unprimed canvas. I enjoy the pull that occurs between being able to determine color relationships and general positioning, and the random collisions and forms the thinned paint chooses to take.
Much of the inspiration for my work comes from a simple curiosity. Investigation and experimentation. Material investigations into densities of paint, texture (both real and implied), opacity, etc. Generally my work feels most interesting, personally, when the physical nature and presentation of the paint and its given substrate can be subject unto themself. For instance: thin layers of color, brushed carefully in alternate directions, and the way that the moment they overlap presents.
From a conceptual standpoint my work is also interested in curiosity. In addition, my more recent work is interested in distances, barriers, and that which is or is not obscured from our own perspectives. Staring out of windows or past glass onto something we cannot reach with our own hands. Not even staring, but thinking about what could be out there if we did. The way we keep ourselves locked away behind barriers. The morose one may feel when they’re the only thing keeping them from the rest of that vast imagined world. The stories that humanless moments in our heavily constructed world can tell us if we look a little longer.
