The widths are so fierce Print

My art, throughout the various series, contains a multitude of themes and dynamics. Undergirding much of them, though, is a sense of the connection between the past, present, and the way that memory plays a role in shaping our understandings of the connections between temporally disparate times.   Time, in my paintings, emulates a specific vision of history and the way that it repeats itself, shaped by undulating waves of new iterations of previous motifs. Much in the same way that Nietzsche talks about the idea of eternal return – and the brutality that Robespierre would be if he repeated ad infinitum – we can see a play with these themes throughout much of my work. Cycles and a sense of timelessness therefore play a significant role in my paintings. The history of humankind cyclically repeats itself; as consecutive waves upon the shore of time. These repititions cane be seen in the styles of the nouveau and the passe. These reiterations and similarities can be seen in exquisite form between the thirties and the present that we live in. Through the use of scenes from the thirties, and their atmospheres and auras and the evocation of that time, my paintings give reference to our the connection between past and present, and the linkages that memory can bring. While playing to elements of memory, the paints seek to avoid depicting these periods – both the past and the present - in a non-nostalgic fashion while paying attention to a sense of realism.