Artist's Statement

The process of making art is the process of tearing things to pieces. Nothing is sacred. Nothing escapes. Time past lingers in the maps of culture, the torn fragments of nostalgia erecting trash heaps of discarded dreams-of-future-days. Every scrap of paper, idea, every painting, artifact, object scavenged from a dumpster, procured from the finest stores, mundane and rare, from temples and sewer systems - EVERYTHING must be destroyed.

The process of making art is the process of putting things together. Everything is divine. There is no exception. The future refracts into focus from the lenses of new machines, the attractors of the present generating networks only manifested on the threshold where myths and maths linger between the personal and the universal. Every shimmering fragment, probability of connection, discontinuous piece of prayer, emergent pattern, paint, color, thunderous luminous light - ALL OF IT must be recombined.

Solve et Coagula
Dissolve and Recombine
I am an Alchemist.

My primary method of painting involves first creating a complex collage layer as an under-painting and then applying layers of paint. In my process I use a combination of controlled techniques and random techniques to generate irresolvable visual complexity and chance patterns, which I then draw together into a whole by editing certain parts out and reinforcing other parts. This is how I process the world in general--perceiving first what seems like a chaos of disconnected elements and gradually ordering them based on patterns into something comprehensible. Often the patterns that emerge are unexpected and delight me with their beauty.