The act of painting is for me like climbing a mountain. This is an abstract journey through both work and time in an honest effort to try to define something undefinable – this human experience. The beginning involves a glance, an idea, somewhere not quite yet visualized but felt. Beginning the work often involves repetition, choosing paths of colour that weave back and forth across space. Often, I am enclosed, surrounded by my own shortcomings, and attempting to stay true to the original vision or let the painting lead me where it would like to go. Some portions of the work are easy, and others are harder. Even at rest the work is breathing, moving. At some point, at a certain ascension, the work starts to become an entity of its own. Moving things are replaced by definition, and where marks are placed becomes much more precarious. There is a point where I must decide to reach the summit of the work or break the piece down entirely. During this time there are few places to go, few places to stop and rest, until the painting is complete. At the peak of each piece is reflection of moments of time and energy, often reflected in my titles. Gathered in each work is acceptance, failure, grief, success, and joy. All these things that make us human; all things that we know, intrinsically, to be true
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