The act which releases expression is not permanent enough to sustain our continued desire to be expressive. The act is a spark upon which movement can express the essence which looms within us. The act is never sufficient enough though, because the act is not permanent. The act of creating music is a love story in which feels so right when the ivory under your fingers is moving fluidly and sometime rapidly, but it is so temporary. It feels so transparent when it is over. The act of painting is a power ballad in which the canvas welcomes the revenge of your brush hard and swift with no disavow. Both of these acts I have come to love but only art I have come to rely on because of its permanence. It doesn’t disappear when you are finished. I am extremely motivated by texture and touch and thus respond to it heavily in working and painting. I like exploring the structure of life. I want to touch the world around me in all of its dimensions and feel its underlying structure. That is what I am responding to on the canvas. The transparency in my painting is my response to the structure of life. The idea of touch is a powerful thing. Not only am I as an artist touching the canvas by working into it, but the viewer will touch it with their eyes when looking at it. Its whole purpose of existence is touch and to be touched.
I paint plants that eat things. It is interesting to me mostly because plants seem like such passive objects. People, are not passive. Mostly, the figure is a spark. I like painting portraits because of that spark. I wanted to play with touching the spark of something illusionary. The dangers of a plant that eats things. It’s toxic. I want to show that energy.The use of color, texture and touch is the element of attraction. That is how carnivorous plants attract their prey… beauty, texture and color. I want to incorporate all that into these paintings. I want to play with letting viewers linger in a space that could be very potentially dangerous.