Sequence I

Twenty works explore an idea of distance drawn from Jon Fosse’s The Other Name: Septology I–II. I think distance is separation. But it can also be felt as closeness. The paintings live in the space between myself and myself.
Between my tears and permission.
Between grief and relief.
Between shift and stillness.

I’m erasing the distance. But it never fully leaves, so I house it.

The paintings emerge from different points in time. I begin each one with a color sourced from a specific work. I think color carries a quality that is deeply felt. Color becomes raw material I extend until I arrive at new images that favor simple expression and insist on subject matter that exists within me. It is taken in, and what remains is felt. The paintings know their history, but they also contain new revelations that are real to me.

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