WORK I see my work as maps of the mind, the brains inner landscape or mental topography in which I move in continuously changing directions. While working I attempt to parallel my brain's activity: complex, constantly mapping out new routs, channeling energy in and out of a labyrinth of changing directions. In this realm, I can isolate and roam through a circumscribed region and map exterior and interior ideas together by interjecting random idiosyncratic actions rooted from my mental geography and the outside world. That is, through the imbrication of textures and movement, I can interweave the topography of the brain and the outside world.
PROCESS The work is created through a ritualistic physical and structural approach in which I concentrate on creating ichnographic images. My process involves mapping, exploring constraints, structural possibilities and gauging the unlimited potential in continuous systems. I am intensely interested in the alchemy of materials, and the process and exploration involved in taking a work to the edge of destruction. Repeatedly, while digging for the potential of a medium and a work, I have to go beyond what I comprehend the limits to be. The intensity and obsessive process provides my mind the space to interweave my collective unconscious and life experiences
MEDIA The media in my work is the harmonizing and layering of bees-wax, oil paint, fabric, and transparencies on paper, bark paper, wallpaper or canvas that evolves to a mutual resolution over time. Harmonizing the thick layers of paint and translucent bees-wax metaphysically represents a vestige of humankind and nature through millennium. Bees-wax, is applied in its natural flesh like translucent color that gives the work layers of protective skin. The paintings are intensely worked until the surface has crevices and areas that appear both destructive and regenerative. Exposing and unearthing inside to hidden layers of paint allows actual interaction between the inside and outside surfaces of the paintings. The gouged and thickly covered surfaces, while very physical, bring to mind the topographical maps of the human inner landscape.
