The Creepiness of Ordinary Things
My work is about the aliveness of everything. Even the repeating patterns of the Flower of Life paintings are the starting point for life. Orifices can be scary or intense. Organs show their emotional natures. Portraits often include colors or costumes that don’t seem to belong. Subjects are purposely skewed for humor’s sake; the darker reality, the accurate representations would be a terrible landscape for any viewer day in/day out.
My paintings are animated; they share a proud and naïve presence, which will be felt. These emperors on my walls aren’t wearing any clothes, and that is part of their charm.
Procreation is a recurrent theme. Golden suns, red caverns, white penises. Sex takes place before sex takes place. Genitalia threaten to leap from their canvases. Brush strokes are full and long, slipping into cracks the medium has left behind. Flowers are unabashedly sexual metaphors. Magnified colors and shapes bring to mind the familiar symbology of our own bodies.
Scale is part of the whole, and until you see a work of art at its actual size a viewer is missing the impact of brush strokes, proportion and unmodified color. Viewing everything on computer or worse yet, a digital phone, takes the majesty out of a creative expression.