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I am intuitively drawn to geometry, symmetry, pattern, and diagram as symbols of meaning in every human life and relationship. As a painter, my work starts with these compositional elements, but the mystery unfolds in what follows.
The Greek word "palimpsest" translates roughly to "again (palin) I scrape (psao)." Scribed on papyrus or wax tablets, ancient mathematical and scientific texts were often pumiced down and reused for different purposes centuries later. This historical layering is the inspiration which informs my process.
Like palimpsests, my paintngs build up gradually to reveal new reference points and skew the underlying logic. Bits of scholastic text or musical notations, muted glazes, scratches, scars, lines that trail from forms and connect them--all of these create a tension between the emotional and rational until a painting takes on an imperfect logic all its own. For me, this is beauty.
I work mostly on wood panels prepared with marble dust, first working the surface with oil paint, cold wax, and fragments of text, which I later rub out, carve back into, and stain with thin layers of pigment. Through this series of choices--erasures, exposures, additions--I'm engaged in the ongoing tension between the mystery and the history of each painting.
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