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Being There
These paintings arise from my perception and use of color as a vital, intense, electric, animating force. They would not exist but for the excitement of color relationships. As they are largely abstract and provide enough of an impression of movement, you may be tempted to consider them in musical terms -- color, movement, interval, balance, direction, duration.
In all of their variety, my paintings are usually united by these concerns:
the spirit of discovery, the use of color, a range of materials, and a considerable variety of textures, scales, orientations -- to remake the world anew, to paint it fresh, to discover something I have not seen before -- and to commune with some of the best, most alive modern and contemporary art... .
Each painting then is a possible world, a one-time experiment, that sings its own song, that looks for its own joy within the universal pursuit of happiness, the universal attempt to avoid pain... .
“Art is about not knowing where we’re going” (Wolfgang Laib, German conceptual artist) …
…all we really know is where we came from… .
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