I believe that most individuals are inclined to be passionate about someone, some endeavour or something. That embrace, love & ecstasy can inevitably bring with it some discomfort, angst, and even irreparable hurt. The divided and fractured heart in my work is an attempt to express that. In dissecting this universal symbol of love and compassion, positive and negative phenomena are expressed as an integral to the cycle of life. As in life’s actual experiences, this depiction is more or less realized in some paintings than others, but as a personal life philosophy, it is always present, even if at times obscure, like the art.

The recent pieces involve the word ’Image’ and a Number.  As an artist, I want to make an ‘Image’ and I am literally counting on my paintings to make art’.  Numbers are facts in life. In a world awash with art images, the numbers are another way of distinguishing one artwork from another, much in the way that we as individuals are distinguished by a social security number.

The artworks are highly textural in nature. Ripped plywood has been integrated with other bits of 3D material which include artifacts of past communication mediums. Pieces of mirror and plexiglas add life and reflection, sometimes even the reflection of the onlooker. These elements form a base for the paint.