The foundation for my art came during a largely unsupervised childhood in which I distanced myself from actuality by envisioning my own small world as a theater and casting myself as both playwright and lead actor in countless fictions. In my current paintings I sew in pen and ink drawings and I employ materials--resin, pigment, oil paint, and string--in order to manifest forms at once familiar and unrecognizable, visual fictions, compositions on the stage of my canvases full of life and movement. When a viewer encounters my figures, or "guys," as I call them, the initial impulse is to decode or interpret, which is my knock at the door, my invitation to come out and play.
I am especially interested in expanding the parameters of plastic art by mixing different mediums that are at once strong and weak, textured and smooth, light and dark. A collage that is not based on found objects but instead on handmade objects which combine to form a new compound art that is a study in wonderment and play and generated by a distinct vocabulary by which I propel my narratives and proffer a challenge to either discover the story or pretend a new one.