My work is an exploration of the boundaries between painting/sculpture, figuration/abstraction, and fact/subjectivity. Between definitions I hope to create an environment where fact can only be glimpsed, through a language of dissonance. My vocabulary is the tension between the flat picture plane, any illusion of space on it, and actual sculptural space described in front of, or behind that plane.
If I have made an illusion, perhaps in the form of a portrait, I will pierce it – at once pushing the plane towards sculpture and revealing something behind. Or, in other works, I will interrupt the plane, by adding various media on top of it. If I am making a “pure” painting, I will create a space that you feel you could almost enter, only there is something in the way – they are no-where spaces.
None of my work is intended to act as means to a specific end, as I am not attempting to reveal an ultimate shared truth. Rather, I am laying the groundwork for a collaborative experience. At best we have only personal truth.