Artist Portfolio

• Artist Statement:
  My current series of drawings focuses on the space between images and words. I feel a person can speak more clearly and accurately if they were to just take the time to carefully select their words, many or few. I also feel that visual trickery, optical lies and technical magic tricks are more of a distraction from a drawing or painting than they are help. I doubt quite heavily that Emerson, Twain, Bukowski, or Blake put much thought to the aesthetics of their penmanship. I also would venture to say that none of these men would have written so fluently if they had been encumbered by the worry of the neatness of their hand. I am always much more captivated by a painting that makes me ask myself why the image was made rather than a painting that makes me wonder how it was made. And it is by this belief that I have come to this process of “written images.” These drawings are intended to be "read" rather than looked upon as a visual object. I view my process as more of a writing endeavor than one of drawing. Instead of taking a condensed idea and attempting to expand it into something much more than it needs to be, I feel that it is much more affective to leave the words to their own virtue. Finally, I am well aware that all knowledge, truth, and philosophy is entirely subjective and thus all ideas are understood subjectively. Because of this subjectivity I feel it is necessary to allow my drawings the freedom to be interpreted subjectively and not attempt absolute specifics for they well be lost anyway. A person can much more readily understand the nature of something if they are allowed to see their own reflection in it.

Artwork

• A Man Looking Backwards
• Cartesian Hypothesis
• Going To The Market
• Kitchen Still Life
• Man In Nature
• Nest
• Passing By SOLD!
• Path SOLD!
• Santa Maria Run Aground
• Shattered Mountain Tops
• Trajectory
• Two Men In Separate Rooms Trying To Keep The Same Time
• Untitled Family