In my paintings, I insert representational forms into distorted and agitated environments. The effect is to produce a tactile surface - which I consider an immersion in painterly improvisation - set into an uneasy alliance with more precisely representational images. Such juxtaposition is rife with conflict and contradiction, and the result is a space where the proximate things compete for rationality.
Inside this schizophrenic whirlpool contrasts become explicit. The tents, amusement park rides, and circus animals, suggest a realm where spectacle and entertainment serve as facades to cover our self-indulgent values. In contrast, the abstract environments mirror the malformed certainties of our time and its inharmonious behavior so deeply rooted within the rhythms of our daily lives.
These paradoxes of the human condition are always at the center of my artwork. Forever we are engaged with the mysteries of life and existence, and always we face the physical finiteness of the earth. Its fast-paced dynamics and chaos-inducing energies are revealed on my canvas as visions of our shared humanity. These pictorial ideas illuminate something of the contradiction that is our common existence, but surprisingly, they transform themselves in my painting into visions of beauty. If this beauty is dark, maybe it is so because so often is life.
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