Artist Statement

2008-11-18

FISSURES RANDOM

There is a fine line between man and nature, despite the determination of modern man to provide alternatives it would seem at every level we participate and leave traces of ourselves on our environment..

The intricate systems of the natural world that are deeply interwoven with the physical systems of living lucid entities are complicated yet simple. By presenting these systems as winding filaments of natural complexity labour becomes a gesture.  Shape and form reveal themselves as a direct result of the process, the journey, the declaration of existence, perpetuating the ongoing interactions from one life form to another and revealing the connections between the individual and the immediate environment through generated comparrisons of biological and physical formation.

For me, the idea of identity and landscape has the power to generate painterly definitions that may form expansive paradigms of distinctiveness hidden within complex personal codes.

Like an aggregate of loose fitting alignments, random combinations of space and form challenge the eye of the viewer, configurations that seem to jostle for position as they create a synthesis between chaos and the contrived.

The interest for me here are the affiliations between these shapes, the irregular spaces that retain them, and the subtle tension that they generate.

When random moments of joy occur during the application of paint they can provide layers of interpretation and may procure a visual dialogue between the artist and the work and the veiwer.