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Artist Journal #23

3/11/15 I had a break-through moment in the studio with this painting, which for a while I couldn’t quite crack the code for what it needed to be complete. I have succeeded in creating a single, larger shape, floating on a white surface; surface tension. It both sinks into the fabric beneath the history of… Continue reading Artist Journal #23

Artist Journal #18

“Overlapping of Perceived Shape” Concealing, overlapping, skewed, misrepresented visual information. Cake. Caked desert. Harsh desert sand and heat. Red hot heat; not blood red. Tension, outlining. Lost imagery. Created boundaries. Depth by illusion and actuality. Continuous motion. Frustrated. Dirt, dirty, dust, dusty. Entangled. I saw the shapes. They came to me in my vision. They… Continue reading Artist Journal #18

Artist Journal #17

4/12/14 When I’m painting, I am at complete peace with my soul. A gritty, violent and ripping release of energy involving brushstroke upon brushstroke of anguish and yet meaningful visual coordination. I can’t stop painting. Even when I try going for several days without painting, I end up ferociously scribbling in my sketchbook or ruining… Continue reading Artist Journal #17

Artist Jounral #16

1/30/14 This journal entry consists of linguistic brainstorming for titles of my new drawings. Typically, when I am titling my work I will sit down with it and write out almost small stories about my feelings and reactions to the finished piece. Sometimes this journaling will involve memory of the experience of making it, or… Continue reading Artist Jounral #16

Artist Journal #15

1/20/14 It’s all about response; reaction; react. It’s about reacting to previous mark. It begins with the immediate mark, no matter what it’s based on, even if it’s based on pure instant automatic drawing; instant feeling; instant motion; instant hand gesture. It’s about action, most importantly. Action and reaction. Reaction to mark, to color, to… Continue reading Artist Journal #15

Artist Journal #13

11/24/13 The work is about uncovering and recovering. It’s a struggle we deal with everyday. The switch between friends and public transit; work and family; home and car. We constantly have to go in and out between realities, personalities, projections, behaviors, truths, lies. Sometimes you can find those secret moments of revealing of the flaws… Continue reading Artist Journal #13

Artist Journal #12

5/2/13 The tension of revealing and concealing – white being a method of hiding/concealing, sewing/stitch being a method of revealing – both play back and forth off each other. Thick about precious vs. not precious – the peripheral as is or being fore-fronted as the precious – that subjective question of validity and value. 5/20/13… Continue reading Artist Journal #12

Artist Journal #11

4/12/13 More and more I realize my interest and unintentional endeavors into the importance and representation of the peripheral. The side elements that occur along the edges of a process are in a way just as important as the finished work that is shown as a sort of claim to completion and solution to a… Continue reading Artist Journal #11