STATEMENT

In my recent paintings and monoprints, time has become the essential material. I think of time not only as duration or movement, but as the space in which perception, decision-making, and meaning unfold. Time spent looking, thinking, trying, waiting, undoing. Marks accumulate. Decisions layer over decisions. Forms emerge, dissolve, and reappear. The surface becomes a record of change, but also of a continual search for coherence within it.

My work begins without a predetermined image or narrative. Instead, it develops through a process of action and response, construction and disruption. Layers are built, challenged, obscured, and rebuilt. What interests me is the tension between order and instability, between the desire to find structure and the reality that certainty often remains elusive. The paintings are not illustrations of ideas; they are spaces where questions are tested through material engagement.

While there is no fixed symbolism or imagery, I am interested in how meaning emerges through direct encounter with a work of art. The layered, often turbulent surfaces reflect the experience of navigating a world shaped by acceleration, fragmentation, and competing forces. Rather than offering resolution, the paintings invite sustained looking, asking viewers to participate in the same process of searching, connecting, and orienting that generated them.

Returning to art-making after more than twenty years in the corporate design services industry has meant reconnecting with the experiences that first drew me to art: the graphic language and kinetic energy of comic books, the joy of working alongside Keith Haring on a mural project, and the transformative experience of encountering a minimalist painting that initially angered me before forcing me to reconsider what art could be. Those experiences taught me that art's power often lies not in providing answers but in changing how we see.

Today, my practice is driven by a sense of curiosity and urgency. After years away from the studio, I find myself committed to continued exploration, and to making work that remains open, questioning, and alive to uncertainty. If there is a subject that runs through these paintings, it is the ongoing human effort to locate ourselves within a world that is constantly shifting around us.