My work explores how different versions of one’s experience of self over time can co-exist, inform and support one another. The unpredictable, free quality of my line is inspired by Andy Warhol’s drawings of the 1950s and by Paul Klee’s ink transfer technique. Paper as a surface provides a softness and fragility, and in varying degrees, captures early marks, lines and discarded figures or fragments of figures. In this way, the completed piece documents the act of discovery and becoming. Working in a large format, the nearly life-size figures engage and challenge us to look at them directly and like modern-day icons, invite contemplation and reflection.
I’m interested in conveying the duality of experience and its enigmatic presence in everyday life. For example: sorrow and joy, magic and mundane, solitude and connection, permanence and transience, abundance and loss. My process reinforces this duality with its push and pull between abstraction and representation. Looseness of line and color, unbound to a realistic description of objects, creates a naive style that in some ways echoes artists like Paul Klee, Marc Chagall or Francesco Clemente; the figures and narratives presented carry less specificity and more universality. This individual and universal is yet another duality. In this way, my hope is that my work might in some way be a bridge, connecting and resonating with others.