ARTIST STATEMENT

I want people to feel a sense of connection to the unknown and ephemeral when experiencing 

my work, which draws  influences from Japanese performance calligraphy, sigils, sacred art, and mythology. As I’ve reached increasing levels of mastery, I’ve begun to deny the accident.  Each drip, each stroke, are visual records of intention.  I believe a gesture can tell a story and invoke emotion,a story that cannot be told in words, but one implicitly understood.  Simplicity is, perhaps, the most complicated of illusions after all.  Every one of my marks carries a quarter century of practice behind them.  

I am telling stories without words; ones that are shared throughout age and time and drawn from the earliest of tales that helped us make sense of our place in the universe.  In my current body of work I am manipulating paint with minimal touch, and utilizing color palettes associated with luxury brands; an intentional comment on the profane commercialization of art while simultaneously creating something beautiful, authentic, and transcendent as a response.