Lifestyle Choices Painting

Taking as a departure point the amusing, anonymously-authored nomenclature of house paint decks, the works in this series of text paintings pick fragments from the swirl of information and “content” in which we’re all swimming and set them into quasi-classification systems. The urge to name and classify all phenomena, to turn everything into a story (even the colors you choose to paint a bathroom!) is as human as apple pie. The painting “Lifestyle Choices” goes further: concepts that seem to have no visual correlation or representation in color (e.g. girls' night out) become shaded and hued. A grid of one color is given umpteen different names: it’s not that none are factual, it’s that all are true.