This painting was started in 2019, and off and on, went through a seven year transformation which mirrored my recent studio practice, starting from the recognizably figurative and evolving into something far more elusive.

This and all my recent paintings are still based in personal imagery filtered through memory, but my painting process and the search for revelation within it, has been allowed to assert itself with increasing independence. Often, or even mostly, what I find while painting, contradicts the original image which also conversely seems vital for me to hold on to. These two opposing forces take on a kind of creative tension that can take years to reconcile.

The painting’s heavy accumulation of paint and its extreme surface becomes a record of this struggle, and the idea of time becomes an essential element in the work - time stretching on for years, while the original memory becomes suspended in the stillness of transformed imagery.