ARTIST STATEMENT

A childhood blankey, my transitional object, first evoked my preoccupation with detail and texture. As I detached, my attention was rapt by other surfaces, and soon presences, of those around me. Portraiture is an expression of affection for me, and I've come to see all my work-- even that which depicts inanimate form, as anthropomorphic portraiture. As I make pictorial representations, I find the love of old things apparent in all my attraction to material and process. The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi is centered around the acceptance of transience. The tension between being enamoured with the deterioration of objects (by way of human attachment and use), and the persistent need to pause decay by connecting through portraiture, defines my work.

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