Artist Statement

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In the new work, INFINITE FLUX, my ongoing attraction to the Buddhist aesthetic/philosophy of Wabi Sabi still pertains.   Nothing is perfect, nothing lasts, nothing stays the same. 

Time, space, and matter are perpetually swirling and shifting to new dimensions and forms.  Each mixed media piece starts with a careful drawing of some indeterminate organic form, allowing me a pause to reflect on the apparent perfection of those forms at a single moment in time.  

However beautiful this particular arrangement of molecules may be, there is no perfection either in the thing itself or in the drawing.  Other forces are acting on the thing and the image constantly, in both cosmic and painterly ways.  Those forces interact with the carefully rendered drawing and push the whole piece into new and unexpected provisional states that beg for further response.  

References to scale or measurement are a counterpoint to the movement of gestural elements. The matte black areas allude to the vast potential within the dark void of infinity, always on the verge of manifesting as matter or form, alive or otherwise: or perhaps the opposite of form……………. the last moment of entropy where nothing at all happens, ever.   

The small drafted iconography offers a little groundedness to a mind rattled by the inconceivable vastness from which all this accidental magic and matter have evolved.