I am always sussing out painting's relationship to the things I'm interested in visually: explosive bursts of energy and light, iconic and often symmetrical forms, pattern as encoded meaning. Finding out how much the paint can convey in weight, mood, and associations without spelling out a specific narrative – this is how I spend my time in the studio lately. My focus has shifted from working in a predominantly representational mode to depicting more abstract spaces, inner or dreamt landscapes that are colored by my interests in 60's geometric abstraction, the Futurists, insignia and camouflage. I like it when a sense of entropy or bad weather happens in the work, despite my need to order things.
November 2007
