Description
I am a still-life painter, however, instead of painting familiar and traditional subjects, I paint pictures of paper. This confuses some people because they believe my paintings are collaged, but in fact they are not.
Each letter or piece of paper is painted with multiple layers of acrylic paint. I do all the fine detail work with archival pens. I work from real letters and memorabilia that I have gathered over many years and from all over the world.
I find great beauty in these old letters. They are nostalgic reminders of things that no longer exist and histories of bygone times. In old letters we find loved ones, parents, old friends, and our old selves.
Space and color are key elements in these minimal compositions, as the ephemera transform into abstract shapes.
Nudging the boundaries between language, painting and abstraction, my paintings present life not as then versus now, but as an inescapable circle of time and memory.
Although the human figure is absent from my work, my art is deeply rooted in the human condition.
