Artist Statement

2007-10-15

Mon Emprente

These works are meant to be indications of my identity presented as impersonal manifestations of paint and canvass. I am not talking about a depiction of my character but an embodiment of my identity on an organic scale without the animations of personality.

Fingerprints are indisputably personal but in these works they are much more.

The transmission of acquired characteristics to subsequent generations as Metamorphosis- in motion as it were on the surface of the painting, to create a type of 'identity-scape' far beyond the conventions of portraiture.

The arrangement of accumulative data that makes up the conclusive uniqueness of the individual is a blueprint of identity and informs the shape of the fingerprint. This transmission of aquired characteristics to each subsequent generation suggests a kind of metamorphis in motion and this lends itself readily to the motion on the surface of the work.

These painterly configerations of repetition are a reference to the abstract expressionists and the idea that the act of painting can reveal a spiritual level of consciousness by translating as emotive gesture.It defies the written word as it explores other forms of visual expression.

I am attempting to harness these gestures using formal procedures. Complex codes of reference that systematically disclose distinctive depictions of the individual are subject to my own applicational determinations.

It is unknown whether or not these representations can describe a particular individual’s character, but by painting them, they describe me.