Tropism 12 Painting

I split my time between Lincoln, Nebraska and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I also maintain a studio. I tend to work in series. I will find some starting point, sometimes and idea or concept, sometimes an image. Then work with it until I think I have exhausted it, at that point I will set them aside and look for something new. The series are loosely based on sets of rules or parameters. Sometimes the idea dictates what materials I will use and other times the materials will dictate the idea. I try to "show" rather than "tell" in my work. It is not narrative, it doesn't tell a story. It is about experience and can be experienced differently by everyone who encounters it. Size does not matter but scale does. As the psychologist Carl Rodgers said, "That which is the most personal, is the most universal." My work is inner driven, I see myself as filter of culture and I am having a conversation with other artists through my work. I am just as interested in reading the biographies, writings and letters of artists as I am in their work. I want to know what they were thinking when they did the work. I want to get at their ideas and starting points and see where they take me anywhere from 10 to 500 years later.