A pastiche of formal elements including materials, process and gesture are the central facets to which my painting practice is tethered, and my obsessive-compulsive mind will never be able to shake these intrinsically engrained tendencies, nor will it relinquish the need to simply ‘make things’. This being said, sometimes the formal components of a work do not necessarily benefit or support a conceptual or thematic premise, and a result, my practice has shifted into a territory that is process-based, with a finished product that is primarily of digital medium (video projection and extreme-detail photography). For me, the notion of the moving image is just a natural, time-based extension of the static image, and both have an equally weighted place within my perpetually painterly heart. I am interested in visual representations of temporality rendered through corporeality (or maybe it’s the other way around.) Basically, I have become fixated on the idea of the abject and otherworldly as viewed through the lens of (human) bodily association or reference. I prefer to focus on what is not shown, or what is ambiguous or abstracted to the extent in which the mind picks up where the eye leaves off, and is challenged to consider the filthy possibilities of the bizarre thing writhing before it. The notion of surfaces have been a recurrent theme within my practice, as the surface remains the threshold between what is seen and what is not seen, and is the site of origin for visceral tension and the precipice for potential energy. The materials that I utilize include a laundry-list of common products, although an equally important objective within my practice involves the repurposing and filming/photographing of said materials from abstract perspectives, which facilitate the transcendence of their cultural relevance in the finished piece. For example, a drinking straw, some dollar store bubble mix, and latex house paint are no longer confined within their socially acknowledged semiotic categories, but instead have become a shape-shifting, amphibious creature asphyxiating and sputtering its’ way into the light.
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