My current medium of interest is what I call ‘photo painting’. It’s layering, combining, and mashing photos together, like photos are paint. Sometimes, I work on a piece for years. Sometimes, just one or two photos come together quickly. However long it takes and how I do it, I am using my art to open questions about God and the human experience.
The work is usually figurative and narrative. I also seem to think allegorically. Images-as-paint come from my wanderings all over the world—textures, graffiti, people doing things, signs, animals, environments. Seeing people as they live blows paradigms in my head and reminds me that I hardly know anything, and that realization is the mental gesso that begins a work. From there, I explore and experiment and pray. When I feel a personal question open or a message revealed, especially a spiritual one, I am happily getting to something.
I’ve been an artist all my life, though I am only now putting my work out there. I’ve been in several shows and galleries, and I have works in several private collections.
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