“Like portrait “collages” which integrate images from various sources, my paintings discard the notion
of the external in favor of a figural description which penetrates boundaries through the displacement
of time, place, age, proportion, and gender. Collage allows for alterations and expansion into a more
inclusive point of view, like a sculptor’s eight viewing points around the model. Consequently,
semblances of Michelangelo’s large, rippling figures might mingle with Picasso’s Terrain vague
or childlike, androgynous heads, producing an offspring of idealized freaks.”
“The subject’s inextricable nature is suggested through layered glazes, the loss of internal edges,
and mercurial, opulescent fleshtones. What may be difficult to notice is that the paintings’ surfaces
are layered with thin paint glazes like onion skins or the rings of a tree. So the figures may
have the appearance of monumentality and strength, but to me they are very fragile.”