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After years of studying cultural, dream, mythological and religious symbols, I am beginning to believe that the most interesting signs are the images that appear and keep pressing on one's mind with no explanation - unexpected images that flash across the brain when phrases like "war by proxy," "turn to salt" or "separation of church and state" are heard, or the nascent compositions that appear while revisiting the "Spy vs. Spy" pages of vintage Mad Magazine or stumbling across a yellowed photograph torn from the New York Times. Honoring these puzzling visages maps the direction that I have begun to follow in my paintings, prints and drawings. In very simple terms, I want to make work that combines ideas and imagery generated through study and research with ideas and imagery that are felt, intuitive, and enigmatic. |
