"I have made images that intellect would never make."
                                               -Francis. Bacon

"We are not in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us."
                                                           -Jean Baudrillard



In the beginning I have no specific sentiment or plan for what a work will look like, I just begin to draw. I start with gesso and pencil as a device that does not lock me into an immediate structure; I draw and block-out, draw and block-out. The gesso never fully covers the drawings and ghost images begin to have a voice. There are often many layers of drawings before something begins to stick, before it starts to solidify into some sort of composition. Then it is a building process where one form or color may demand another in an embattled search to solve the composition. At some point I gain a sense of the thing and then try to increase its life and vitality, its power or simply its luster. Each painting becomes its own journey and every step holds constant risk of failure. It is just that risk that makes it exciting and painful and moves me to begin again.

I make no conscious attempt at a statement in my work, and yet if I recognize one, I embrace it or follow it. I find it more challenging and engaging to work form the intuitive; challenging because it requires a quieting of the conscious and a step towards uncertainty; engaging because I do not fully understand and so allow for surprise and discovery. It is a process of exploration rather than an execution of or attempt at specific sentiment or plan.

These paintings are realized through doing and making; thought is informed by action, not the reverse. They tend to be gluttonous, needy and unapologetic; their wisdom is their idiocy and their hunger is their strength; and so they find parallels quite easily.