In a broad sense, my paintings reflect the friction and fragility intrinsic to idealism. With an insistence on freshness and spatial vibration, the silhouetted shapes are both a distillation and an idealization. Many layers of ink washes activate contingency within the figure/ground relationship. The figure rises and the ground falls; the ground rises and the figure falls. This undulation brings forward union and transition, which take shape as an overlapping and shifting vastness. Within a painting, every layer of washed ink is the same value and color as it comes from a single source. Often, as the layers accumulate and paper nears its maximum saturation, color separation and value variation occurs. The work aims to call to mind the overall fluidity and cyclical nature of phenomena and to create an awareness of the synergy that is at work in vision.
The title for a painting refers to the number of the Pantone PMS Color® that matches that painting’s “average” color.
