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The painting is of taillights. I see the universe in the things and loved ones that surround me. Not simply they are “my universe” but there is an endless depth if you are willing to look close enough. Look long enough. Allow your mind to wander. My paintings are triggered by events, people I love, stupid jokes, the turn of a phrase, the need for solace, superstition. This is how I start but it never defines how it will end. In fact, I may physically finish a painting but I do not want closure. I usually start a painting with something knowable, like an object with symbolic value or a related idea. Maybe a portrait of a person I know and care about. When I get into the painting, it becomes apparent how abstract or slippery the ideas and forms can become. This is when I decide if I should continue on, change course, or start something else. What my paintings mean to me changes as time passes. Both in the course of working and when I am finished. A finished painting is always the same, but I am not. We are not. We are new everyday. I want the door to be open to you the viewer. I want to invite you in and take a look around. Check the desk drawers. Please take and use what you need. Make yourself at home. I am leaving. I was the first viewer when I made each of these paintings but I have moved on. Moved out. Made room for you to see the universe in your own particular way. We have a lot of bombast and strong opinions in our vernacular now. A lot of black and white. I paint grey. The painting “Bantam Company” is of a rabbit hole leading under the deck of our old rental house. Of course there is the pop culture cliché of going down the rabbit hole and all its underpinnings. But the idea for this painting was triggered by my love for the work of Lee Bontecou. She has a way of making dark spaces and voids so physical and material. And when I moved along through this painting, the meaning and forms wandered as my mind did. The grass turned into spaghetti and the rabbits became men. The title refers to a British army unit in the First World War. In the end the way I make MY meaning shouldn’t matter. What is important is that the door is open to you to make yours.

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:9 W x 6 H x 0.8 D in

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