Paint
Recently, faces from the past have made their way into paintings that are usually not so illustrative, and that’s okay. I’m falling in love with the magic of that process. Which is another reason why I paint – I’m fascinated with the various processes by which one can arrive at something, whether that’s physically in space, through observations of energy, or in abstraction. The pour is an act that I like to capture when I record myself painting because I’m fascinated with the idea that the end result of that pour is the same act captured at a different time, in a different space – what line does that evolution create? And what things can exist around it to help support its trajectory?
“If everything I perceive is based on what I already know, how will I ever perceive anything new? If I never perceive anything new, how will I change? How will I grow?”
I discovered in my explorations that abstraction allows me the most precision when attempting to talk about something like the past, or movement, or energy. It’s a form of storytelling that I normally don’t have access to unless I’m using a visual language I’ve created to communicate it. When I used to write more than paint, I always thought the only way to say something was with words, either spoken or written. When I started painting I had discovered a new mode of speech, and it was comprised of paint pours, ink spills, and a lot of canvas.