My paintings are abstract and also grounded by reference to the observable world as well as nonphysical realms. I live in the Southwest on an expansive mesa with few trees and wide-ranging views. The surrounding mountains, storms, and open skies are theatrical and majestic. Figures and natural landmarks appear as flattened silhouettes against burning sunsets. A sunset is an end of today, but also a promise of tomorrow, it holds within it a realm of possibilities.
These elements deeply influence my compositions, which convey alternating negative and positive spaces: at times either a dark or light flat shape recedes into a void, a nothingness; at other times, it emerges to become the subject and gradients of colors become the background. Some shapes come close to touching; tension and longing are in the sliver of in-between space. The colorful gradients are a gradual dawning or dimming light source, an expansion, and a fleeting moment of time.