My work reflects the world around me, in all its multilayered splendor; it reflects the many systems that govern it and eventually the work becomes self-portraiture. Neither abstract nor figurative; instead it is an amalgamation of dualities. By reflecting combinations of self and culture(s) the work becomes multilayered in material and referential experience, i.e. process.

Abstraction now subsumes representation, as geometry shifts from pure form and automatist marks mutate and transform into the referential - into figure and sign. Abstraction and figuration become merely words in a language - the language of painting. As old meanings die new ones arise to take their place, often reiterating the old meaning's existences with subtle and slight twists so as to appear as evolutions or progressions,
betterings and betterments. New images made up of old forms, old forms emptied of their tired dusty Romantic notions and filled with new products. The cyclical emptying out and filling up of words, images, techniques, forms, thoughts, styles, etc. creates hybrids,sometimes make of nihilism and jaded ennui but also promises of freedom - if one is open to them. The new is based on the old and the old is given new life as in the myth of the Phoenix - the bird of flame that rises from its own ashes. In this sense all art is a constant cyclical process, as is life and reality. A multilayered process, a multilayered thing.

My paintings are a place to record this reality, this life - my existence. As this existence is a constant struggle and always changing so will the paintings even if these changes are invisible to the viewer. I continue to question the vitality of life and this is documented in my art. To avoid slipping into doledrums one must continually shake things up a bit, I want to make beautiful sensuous objects that connect to as many other systems as possible so as to exist as a node on a nexus of ideas. The paintings are conglomerations and the
consequences of an arduous conceptual process. A successful painting is one that connects diverse systems in the most simple way - a way that itself may be the portrait of chaos.

Some of the systems that enter my conceptual process are philosophy, science, art history, religion, politics,music, mass media, technology, psychology, as well as others. I am interested in exploring my daily enviroment as it is filtered through many of these systems. I experience reality as a synthetic one, determined by systems of thought which shift the meaning, purpose, and the analysis of reality constantly, yet reality is always one step away, never in the moment but when recognized and labeled it flees into another multilayered moment.

My paintings reflect their author in plurality and multiculturality, and the search they reflect is a search for a place where value judgements lose meaning and purpose. This search often proves to be an oneric, self-absorbed one; the process of many an artist. This multilayered process is the only bridge across the nothing, the meaningless, the purposeless of this fin de siecle existence into renewed raison de etre.