I find my ordinary everyday surroundings to be a great source for imagination, creativity, and art.
My work comprises three main series: Scenes, Timelapse, and Grid.
Scenes
These paintings are of everyday, familiar scenes, but with odd colors and unusual perspectives that give them a lonely, disquieting quality. They have been called mysterious and haunting. This series is influenced by my interest in the work of children, the insane, and other outsider artists.
Timelapse
This series reflects my interest in time, change, and animation. Each work comprises two or more paintings derived from sketches or snapshots of a single location over time.
"Timelapse: 54 Days, Lincoln Street, Marfa" consists of 54 acrylic paintings on gessoed panels. Over a one-year period, I took snapshots of my kitchen table. I then created the paintings by abstracting each day's picture to be interesting in its own right, in addition to being part of the completed whole. Each painting is almost like two separate paintings, with the colorful objects on the white tabletop forming one image, and the changing background around the table another. The paintings show the shapes and colors of objects on the table as they change from day to day: books, plates, magazines, napkins, etc.
"I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range; and, for this reason—every place, for my eyes, being equal to every other—I see little use in traveling. I must say I have all my life always love tables."
—Jean Dubuffet
Sketches I did over a period of several months were the basis for the 6-panel piece "Timelapse: Bedroom Window, July 1980."
"Timelapse: Comfort Texas, March/April 1982" is based on a series of drawings I did in Comfort in 1982.
Grid
The Grid series is based on my interest in animated film. Small variations from frame-to-frame create motion and pattern.