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I am an abstract painter and have been an artist from my earliest memories. I do not hope to make images… that they come from anything is a paradox, they rather occur after a fashion. Confronted with the anxiety of the blank canvas and with that resulting energy, I work until I have ruined it, then beginning again I continue working rather lost between the brushstrokes until I scrape it off, or some of it, put it back, or some of it, and eventually there is the residue, map, or blueprint of an activity and process that proves the creative activity of one human being. Lines are added that you cannot see because they have been pulverized by light, images surface and vanish. There are no burning babies, no dancing firemen, no gravity or passage of time, yet all these and more are regularly seen by others. Those objects and relationships that seem to exist in the picture plane instead exist in the subversive paradox of this apparent mirror in which the viewer ultimately finds themselves. 01/02/08 |