backdrops
2004-2006
This free-style series was motivated by my general interest in painting not as the illusion of space, but as an event that takes place over a surface.
To start with a color field and explore saturation through glazing, That alone as an event, a relationship and an entryway to relating to life via materials, liquids, tools and colors is a valid reminder of the spiritual realm.
Then, those images suggest figurative arrangements, that I elaborate from my imagination. I focus on juxtaposing different actions, so that I can explore velocity in the act of mark-making. I want to know there are slow-acting effects under fast paced disruptions, for example.
Using a brush, I paint found-images and study drawings that I have made or gathered daily, and that are scattered around me during specific periods of time. That is relevant for me. Images that intercept my reality within the parameters of a specific period and the things that happen around them. Are these in consequence or is it the opposite?. These works, I feel present surface as a continuum that is reflective of emotional circumstance. Also, a place where I get to resist sameness and branding.
I am motivated by the search of that which resonates over text, like the signatures on the wall of the city.
Whether quickly or slowly fashioned, "the house", "the doll", "the shadow", "the flower" etc, crafted matter subverts the machine-made: permanent structures that would otherwise reflect no trace of human scale.