ARTISTS STATEMENT

I am working with acrylic paints on stretched canvas and paper.  Collaboratively composed by many humans and telescopes, the paintings are generally the width of my wingspan; their height is scaled to the golden ratio, often visibly composed as the fingerprint of consciousness underlying enormous spacetime phenomena.  The paperwork projects from the context of business-casual, 8.5 x 11” and larger, focusing on alternative cosmologies.  I draw, write, sculpt, make digital compositions, and models— while wrestling with the veils of perception, quantum mechanics, and therefore the nature of reality.  I treat the messages of this genius and those that science fiction has projected into our future as a survey of comparative religions, intelligences, and intuitions that are consistently adapting very similar messages for us, in hopes that we are learning and will edify our present state of existence.

By the time dinner rolls around and friends start calling, I am pretty convinced that we live in a simulation.  I find it a comforting response to an expanding cosmos. 

It is as funny and dry as the paint was on the canvas when it was brought to the gallery.  In making more traditionally poised art, I have more conversations and am less engaged with those concerned about the “best art,” while breaking all of the rules by not following thousands of years of throwing tantrums and valuing dominance, beauty, and elegance over the amplification of collaborating patterns permeating through divergent discourses of competing disciplines into a form pointing at utopia.