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I have worked in a fashion that has always found me deconstructing and reconstructing the image. Often the image is meaningless to me and is offered up to the viewer for his or her own interpretation. Other times the images follow a path of interest or story line, if you will, that has found my attention.
Process drives the work. The search for meaning and personal esthetic in my painting has taken on a methodology that I surrender myself to. Over the years I have developed various tools or approaches to creating paintings. Giving to this process, in many ways, releases me from a level of intimacy with the work that intensifies my objectivity. Resourcing found imagery from daily experiences; I strive to utilize the processes I’ve created to begin a narrative to be completed by the viewer. Some seven years ago I began to paint on large rolls of builders paper. This began as a cheep alternative to canvas or board. Continuing an exploration into working with repeated imagery lead me to consider cutting the paintings of repeated images and weaving the paper strips together. The process in which I work brings together images painted on two different surfaces. The works are then cut into strips allowing me to weave them together altering and reconstructing the narrative.
This gives me freedom to deconstruct and reconstruct as I choose. This process began a series of works that has driven my artistic pursuits ever since.
