These paintings are a way to access memory and visualize the unseen. This approach to painting connects abstraction and figurative form to the experience of all the other senses — and in particular to music, poetry and narrative. In this regard, painting is as much about seeing as it is about relating and everything that comes with that — language, the body, and the social field. Painting has a discourse, an oral tradition, texts and voices that represent and are represented by means of its skin, seam, and depth. These aspects permeate reality through figurative and material means wielding sense and sense-making to measure up to the thickness of things. By sense-making I mean how robustly the world enters the invocations of my day to day, and the extent to which I leave open space for many worlds to exist in an image made in light of them.

The paintings below are presented in chronological order, the first being the most current. The sequence trails my thinking and feeling of the worlds I encounter in drawing and direct experience.