Paintings

I paint Industrial Landscapes and Excavation sites. I find the open and desolate landscape of rock and earth bleakly beautiful and transcending. I am witnessing buildings being torn down, a period of excavation where the land reasserts itself and then a building is built that obliterates that temporary landscape and space.

Each of my recent paintings is a composite of different stages of excavation. I visit a site numerous times to witness the changes, then try to manipulate all the shifting images /landscapes into one painting. Excavation scenes are magical because they evolve rapidly as people work on them. The ground is shifting all the time, like multiple scenes from a film. Painting these scenes is my way of paying testimony and homage to the land of earth and rocks and open landscape.

I am mesmerized by the surface of things. All the movement, detail, and articulations of the surface of rocks, soil, and vegetation. I find great joy in being able to convey my impression/experience of the surface, and to dance across it with my tools using various marks and codes.