| The exchange between process and structural elements has become a way of working upon which to hang my emotional responses to my personal ventures and to the world as I experience it. Elaboration (development) of the relationship between this structure and process serves as a metaphor for my expressive concerns which reflect a constant yin and yang of existence and a layering of process, ideas and images. There are so many variables in seeing, thinking, and working which are oftentimes not consciously recognized. Reaction to those visual, emotional, and cognitive experiences will create work that fits somewhere on a continuum between naturalism and abstraction and sometimes that seems and looks quite different from work just done. I relish this variety but recognize that aspects of my visual language are always present no matter the position on that continuum.
The wall is my foundation, against which I beat the charcoal, the pastel, the brush, arriving at a forceful pattern of strokes that represent my emotional reactions to the thought process and reflecting the visual vibration that I want in my surfaces which in turn reflects the idea that vibration is also sought for in concentrated color. With saturated color comes an interest in density and the frontality of the picture plane. Sometimes stepping off that plane to the floor with found objects or chosen objects extends the possible life of the ideas and images within the rectangle or square of the canvas. Some pieces are initially simple reactions to visual excitation..
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