July, 2011
Hokusai envisioned thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. Cezanne gazed at Mont Sainte-Victoire with fresh energy over sixty times. I, too, am looking for my earthly motif that ranges into the heavens.
I am dreaming of white mountains cast in numberless shades of summer green.
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July, 2010
Chinese writing and primitive art-forms bewitch, and I am drawing towards all that is child-like, animal-like, and angelic.
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February, 2008
I sense an artistic responsibility to grasp, reprocess, and re-present our world. This is also my privilege.
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June, 2006
I paint quietly and slowly.
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May, 2006
My paintings and drawings record direct and repeated observations. Each reiteration of similar motifs marks an increasing intimacy with the world and moves an observational practice closer to a private meditation. My comfort in familiar objects and their spaces manifests in an aging collection of citrus fruit—once-fresh oranges are now desiccated, discolored, misshapen, and hard to the touch; and my desire to escape the mundane impels me toward the uncanny.