Afloat Above the Stage Painting

When I was ten, I was given a book on how to draw animal cartoons. I never stopped. People asked me "Does it really have to be animal cartoons?" Yes it does. Even my doodle-based abstract art has that energy of anthropomorphized cartoons. I looked at the cave paintings of Lascaux. What are they but animal cartoons? It is a primal act. Cartooning is a language. It is a set of codes for describing space-time, energy and matter, emotions and states of mind. My cartooning is inspired by the early comic book artists who adapted the ancient art for the new media. Later, I saw graffiti based art that used the codex of cartoons, to free public expression from the media. My cartoons were freed from the limitations of paper and I splattered them across surfaces covered in spray-paint. The scenes my cartoons inhabit are stages. As a recovering performance artist I know that we are all putting on a show every day. We don cartoon masks and shift in and out of the layers of our morphing world views.