My first memory is of light. Architecture alters space and shapes light, creating intersections between the artificial and natural. I love how a window can frame the sky - a view - like a painting. And the painting is always shifting.
Elevations are places of refuge. Seeking high ground in a flood is a survival instinct for the body and spirit. Elevations also are diagrams of facades of buildings. A single line can separate the sky - the infinite - from a finite structure.
I am drawn to the language of light, reinterpreting space and light in two dimensions. I want to express physical phenomena not as they are but as they could be, through the filters of sight, memory and the process of painting.
“Light does not stay,” Tennessee Williams wrote. When it returns, it has changed, and so have we.
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Contingency/Boundaries
2018
oil and copper on panel