"3.15.2025 seated red" Drawing

My paintings and drawings are the residue of my glance, artifacts of my attempts to see.

Redreamings - Through dreams I access internally-generated subconscious images. Redreamings result from my attempts to understand the underlying message of those images by revisualizing the dream. The redreamed images are the artifacts of the search for the dream's meaning. To render the image of the meaning of the dream i blindfold myself. There are two reasons for this. First, the volume and dynamism of dream-form requires me to limit the impact of ego-interference on the content when condensing it into a static image. To avoid that i blindfold myself, then relive the dream in as much detail as possible while drawing, blindly, on the media. This provides an abstraction from the dream. Second, i meditate on the blind-abstraction. This is my way of asking my subconscious for a second dream, a "redreaming", if you will, based on abstracted remnants of the initial dream experience. The result is the image of the meaning of the dream. Working however my subconscious uses my hands to move the paint, I never know in advance where a redreaming will lead. To a great extent most of the image paints itself. The subject of redreamings is 'light' because it is synonymous with consciousness.

Essays - These works are a form of psychological analysis recorded in compositions orchestrated through drawings of a series of poses. They are all one model each. The model poses. The figure is drawn on the page. The model changes to the next pose. The second pose is considered in how it relates to the first as well as all the other poses to come. A relationship between the first and second poses as well as all the others is intuited, and the second drawing is placed on the page. The underlying concept is that the models are communicating something through the poses they choose as well as the ones they do not assume. Further, the idea is that the way to distill what the model is projecting depends on bringing the various poses the model assumes into right relation to one another compositionally. Like a chess game, as each move is made, the number of available options is reduced. These are not so much drawings of nudes as they are sketches of the essence of the person. Even when there are two essays of the same model, each is as unique as a snowflake.