Since it mirrors
what’s inside us and outside us — what limbs and root
systems and coral reefs look like, what our nervous
system looks like — I think people sense a universal
energy and connect with it on a primal, pre-linguistic
level. I love this sort of direct hit to the frontal cortex,
because I’ve always been interested in how we
construct meaning — memory, ideology, history —
what we call “truth.” I’m interested in anything that
fights against being overdetermined by culture and
power structures. So I hope these paintings are
apprehended by the body as much as the mind —
that it’s like breathing. It makes the work accessible
by anybody, of service to everybody. It doesn’t need
interpretation — it’s just the life-force in action, nature
and paint expressing an exploratory genius.
