| My art is like driving around in a foreign country. You take a chance and do some exploring. You get lost but you see things that are so amazingly beautiful that you’re happy being lost. Suddenly the sky has changed. It’s growing dark and you need to get back to the main road. You become uneasy as you pass junkyards and graveyards but at the same time the beauty that you had found rolls around in your brain. You ride around for hours trying to find a way back. And you do. You’ve created an experience that will live in your consciousness forever.
Each one of my paintings is like a road trip. I go through all of these changes but instead of a car I have my paints. There are no rules on my road. I improvise making marks with colors that either feel like everything all is right with the world or nothing makes sense. I’m time traveling backwards and forwards, inside and out. The work comes alive and it always feels like a miracle.
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