My work demonstrates the paradox between space and reality. I use landscape to symbolize growth through volatility, conveying beauty within desolation. Using wood, paint, paper, and razor, I create, break apart and reconstruct until the pieces are de facto collages, portraying how forces play with both internal and external realities. Landscape painting tends to draw on the traditional and literal as well as the symbolic. While patterns, such as bark, leaves, grass, etc., physically exist in the landscape, they also exist in the form of thoughts. Sometimes the internal thought patterns become distractions and sometimes the roles are reversed, with the external invading the world of dreams and ruminations. While the media and patterns make up the skin of my constructions, the shapes aid in generating meaning and providing a formal platform, giving the images and symbols clarity and dimension. The process of endless building and re-configuring, transcends the physical, and encompasses the symbolic.
