The Spread of Sustenance Drawing

My work emerges from dealing with issues of trust and letting go. It is a way of immersing myself in impermanence and expressing the liberation of stepping into the unknown. Each piece is an improvised call and response with the mediums at hand. With a constant reactive expression to the ever changing composition. My work is concerned with not being concerned. Each piece is approached both consciously and unconsciously; intentionally and unintentionally; rationally and irrationally. The paradoxes which lay at the heart of my work are a way of revealing a dependence and harmony of dualities. Each piece begins with a type of automatic drawing. This is the unconscious expression of pure movement and gesture. My actions are not conditioned by an ideal composition, I do not know what the piece will look like and trust only in my ability to react to the materials. The process becomes a meditation on the ephemeral nature of reality as I relax and let forms evolve and dissolve as they may. As I continue to layer, I begin to make associations which change how I perceive and react to the piece. Every mark is an accident, but no mark is a mistake, and every unintentional gesture becomes intentional as it is integrated into the whole. I want to express that feeling which preceded words, that thing which we know but cannot say. There is no symbolic or representational imagery in my work. The viewer confronts a chaotic field which the mind scrambles to make sense of. From the depths of the unconscious are projected associations to forms and feelings which the viewer then becomes conscious of. As I play a role in the synthesis of the piece, the viewer plays a crucial role in the meaning of the piece.