It seems the more layered and complex I make a painting the more simple and unified it becomes. In painting, I am interpreting the infinite. Its complexity and yet unified oneness. In this context, I experience a kind of union with all that is and has been.  Each work is about the endless and the unknowable.  As a painter, I am seeking to understand the essence of the infinite, even though I do accept it as an impossibility. 

Repetitions of layered drips and gestural brush strokes create ordered spaces. My responses to these combinations allow me to be present in the painting like no other subject.  These works of acrylic paint on linen begin as layered grids of dripped paint. Gestural brush strokes are applied within an imposed system.  Together they join causing an expanse that invites me and the viewer to think about and complete their meaning. 

Interstices, the spaces between the parts of all things large and small, are an important aspect of each work.  These spaces breathe and engage me as they empty and fill and visually shift and change with meaning.  For me, these shifts intermittently elude to time, to molecules, to architecture, to ancestral souls and often to absolute nothingness.  Although all of these belong within a continuum with all there is, I trust in the whole and sense its entirety even though it is beyond the realm of my understanding. I trust, though I can't see the forest for the trees.