The pattern on the wing of a moth evolves naturally from unseen conditions or forces in its environment.
In my studio I seek to create conditions where invisible currents and structures that shape the world around me can emerge naturally as visual conscious forms on a canvas. The painting then becomes a window to somewhere I haven’t been before. Something ineffable is revealed that stretches beyond the canvas.
The motor driving my obsession is the desire to create something visual but the synesthesia here is strong. So color is experienced as sensation. Movement becomes sound becomes music becomes emotion, which turns to color and form again. The paintings are created and experienced while crossing back-and-forth across boundaries of senses, memory and awareness, so some aspects of the work will always remain invisible or unnameable.
Unnameable or not, I hope that the physical joy and the engaging process of curiosity in making the work will be apparent and stay with the viewer.
