Italian Ices Painting

My role as an artist is to become more aware and curious. All life experiences, physical, intellectual and emotional, contribute to the process of making art. Through the study of science I approach art with a problem-solving mentality. Mathematics has given me the experience of pure thought and music a means of expressing it. My work in construction has given me an appreciation of a variety of materials and methods of execution. The direction in which I move depends on my desire to find ways of realizing my dreams. We walk among objects in the world around us, seeing objects in relationship to other objects and self gives us a sense of scale, mass and position. The universe is a layering of planes, one in front of the other. Over time I have become more aware of how I see the world and my fundamental process of making art. The painting is not a representation of life, but a real thing, an object in real space that can be experienced as a picture. This is how I have been making art, constructing as much as painting. My paintings are a layering of planes, one in front of another. Every material offers a series of sensibilities, forming rhythms and patterns obeying the same forces of nature governing all things. Assemblage and collage are methods used to add elements unique to the material, not as a substitute for the painted form or drawn line. Text is used as both a visual and a political element. Through the combination of image and the written word, the paintings can literally be read on several different levels.