The work attempts to impose order on disorder and reflects eternal conflicts. Power struggles between shape, line, color, depth and balance exert themselves and I work to reconcile these opposing forces, arriving at a visual solution that evolves from one painting to the next as each new set of forces emerge.

The primary shapes here are suggestive of universal symbols, but retain a bit of personal iconography that has evolved over time. Shapes are repeated with slight variations through the layers, forming reverberations of the original, like a visual echo or ripple-effect.

The shapes are buried deep within the multiple layers of paint or wax, and others exist flatly on the surface, obvious and ready for attention. I obsess over the interplay between surface concerns and depth of field, the struggle between what recedes and what advances. Colors shift, warm to cool, line weights waver, and organic forms confront straight edges. The vertical parallel lines and bands of color interact and intersect with the shapes, disconnecting and detaching the shapes in provocative ways, suggesting rigid linear forces that attempt to impose order on the organic nature of things.