A combination of impromptu compositions and painterly allusions, sliding scales of chance and design, they play at the edge of coherence. Texture, color, and form create visual dissonance and harmony.

I consider the biological and physical processes of the natural world (all the beauty and ugliness, digestion, decay, birth, gravity, respiration) and emulate those processes in the physical application of the media. In this way, I consider my work to be naturalistic (acknowledging the art historical connotations of the term). The resulting object is a document of action and formalistic tension.

Truth is a slippery construction, but I see these natural forces at play in debate, in relationships, in education, in culture, and in conversation. My paintings are events just as the opening of a shutter is an event. My paintings are documents the way a photograph is a document. I am painting the world in which I live.

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