Artist Statement, continuing revisions...

I have this idea about the world: it is an enormous and beautiful landscape that is alive, constantly moving, constantly breathing, constantly in flux. Each part of it, from trees to oceans to microbes to humans, is drastically different yet made of the same basic structures to form a seamless, infinite reality. If you look closely enough, you can see and feel these things in motion: when a star shoots across the sky, when a fire burns, or when the sun rises and sets. It all exists in infinite motion on a macro- and microcosmic scale, as beings interact with each other to share space, time, and the fundamental building blocks of the universe.
While working primarily in oil paint, my work talks about the ideas of natural singularity, the materiality of paint as well as process and motion. The act of building each painting takes on spiritual and scientific aspects. In meditating about the interconnectivity of the natural world, while keeping in mind philosophies of Daoism and Confucianism, the work naturally develops and establishes a certain flow. Each mark becomes a reaction to the one before it, causing the painting to embody an infinite, harmonic song and dance. The work also takes on scientific aspects in both concept and process. Making each painting is an experiment: mixing different color, different mediums, and different application techniques and making observations as to the end result.
Conceptually, the paintings also speak to ideas of string theory, nature, and celestial objects. I am using these ideas as a vehicle to attempt to answer my own ‘whys?’ and ‘hows?’ about the world, to help to answer questions about existence. The act of making these paintings is very spontaneous: they are rarely planned but instead fall into place. This aspect causes them to take on an organic quality; they are not planned and also not random but natural. The process is based on instinct as each painting builds the materiality of the universe through the materiality of the paint. I am exploring and creating my own landscape of what the fundamental make up of the universe looks like.