I create works that raise questions rather than statements, with curiosity for uncovering cultural associations through artistic applications. Assumed conflicts are resolved when the viewer discovers subtle details that could be overlooked due to intensity of colors and bold structural forms. My work gives validity back to discredited material with support from tried and true forms and media, causing conversation with image, object and material.
I’m not trying to convey a specific idea or concept. I’m more interested in creating a visual phenomenon. I want the finished product to be surprising more than I want it to be resolved. I’m painting them like a D.J. who is playing his own songs. My objective is to create something unexpected using different combinations....see more here.
The dominant images in these works use images of athletes, politicians, celebrities and soldiers, cut from newspapers; magazines. The figures are abstracted by excising them from their original context, concentrating on the cores of the bodies, so that the limbs are visually amputated at the elbows & knees. Thus the figures are altered into ghost-like apparitions. This evokes both the amputees returning from war; the phenomena of "phantom limbs," the reported sensations that amputees feel in the parts of their bodies that are no longer there. The energy in the original is subsequently halted, mid movement, yet lingers, as in a dream.see more here.
