My work is an identification with the unwitting servant of everyday chance circumstance. It’s rooted equally in fiction and reality, myth and history.  These are the same subjects that I perceive to have affected my heroes William Blake, Leonard Baskin and Albrecht Durer.  My narratives play with the concepts of self-awareness and/or a lack thereof.  My characters are grossly disproportionate both in physical features, as well as in their relationship to their environment.  The self-aware characters keep their hands out of the cookie jar and their eyes closed, the others stir up worlds and keep the narratives in perpetual motion.  Sometimes the latter make me physically sick.  In any case every character is like a character in a dream, an essential part of the dreamer.

 

My recent work has been toying with the concept of apophenia, which is essentially the recognition of patterns (and in some cases faces and scenes) within random data.  I'll often make marks inspired by or directly influenced by a combination of found textures and patterns, as well as the marks that the tools themselves make.  Often a simple brushstroke can evoke its own in-depth character. From there I simply develop the forms and give them color.

 

"If you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various different landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys, and various groups of hills. You will also be able to see divers combats and figures in quick movement, and strange expressions of faces, and outlandish costumes, and an infinite number of things which you can then reduce into separate and well conceived forms"

- Leonardo da Vinci