Inspiration, Process, and Transition

What drives my inspiration is the constancy of curiosity; questions, seeking, intuiting, and considering answers. Which most often, leads to more questions and a deeper inquiry. In art, the Socratic possibilities are endless, farming conscious thought and emotional awareness simultaneously. One line, straight or curved, converging on another from different angles, bounded by films of varying densities, can change intent endemically. Run with it, or don’t, reflect, inflect, intend without expectation. I am inspired by the results of yesterday’s decisions, and all the possibilities they offer.

Process for me, evolves with each new body of work, requiring different materials, techniques, and skills. One facet, however, remains persistent: my need to see through transparent layers of paint. I need the optical complexity. I want to be challenged by the evidence of what has happened on the surface of a painting over time. Transparency requires time for the eye to adjust, to absorb. A sense of time is provoked by the intervals necessary to see through layers. Time becomes a natural, essential, and existential feature within the luminosity of my work. One painting, in my most recent group, was an experiment conducted twenty-six or seven years ago. The painting then sat in a box, unfinished, for decades. Until I remembered its relevance, listening over time, day by day, or, year by year. When a painting falls silent, it is done. Though occasionally, a conundrum is offered, and demands, to never be silenced. Process always remains.