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Enso Thicket-mixed media photograph

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This blog shows my images as well as journal pages with photos, blurbs and all things relating to fine arts practice. This blog also serves as a sort of website with my artist statement and gallery contact info.

Vacancy-mixed media photograph

Within the pages of this website are the images I’ve created and they mark a place in time and a record of my life and interaction within this world. My work is a personal document of the way I see and experience events. There have been difficult forces in my life that I have been able to withstand by entering a non-verbal, non-linear way of thinking and seeing, and I hope to express this way of seeing with my work.

Three Vaqueros-oil on canvas

As an artist, I enjoy a connection with all of humanity through a long line of predecessors in my field. This ancestry goes back to the early beginnings of our existence as human beings. When I touch my brush to a canvas, I feel in me the ancient hands that took up pieces of ocher and charcoal, and rubbing them on rock, made the first marks in our collective, artistic journey. Artistically, I find myself concerned with qualities of light, surface, color, and the riotous underbelly of life itself, its energy or essence. This work is a marker of my existence in this time and place, and I hope that it is a record for those around me too, friends, family and neighbors, both human and animal. It is a quiet diary of the daily affairs of life, the interconnected images and juxtapositions of the sentient and insentient components of our world.

Crown of Flame-mixed media photograph

 Lately, I seem to be interested in the creation of painterly worlds of my choosing and not simply the recording of the environs as I see them. It’s a conjuring of sorts, an alchemic meddling in which these world components are transmuted and reiterated into the kind of places that I want to see and inhabit, and I think that it’s in the sharing and mutuality of this work that the artistic process is completed. What I like most about painting is that it changes my mind.Painting is smarter than me and it melts the hardened templates of my thinking and shows me new possibilities. It de-ossifies my mental constructs and returns me to the wide open frontier of possibilities, and I'm left swimming in a giddy ocean of infinite ways and means that are completely beyond my probable grasp.