Rune Series

“A work of art opens a void, a moment of silence, a question without an answer, provokes a breach without reconciliation where the world is forced to question itself.”

Michel Foucault 

There is a strong formal aspect to these paintings. They locate forms on a plane in the two-dimensional space of the picture. I want these pictures to be beautiful to behold. The idea of locating a readable form in implied space on the flat plane is fascinating. The pictures start in the sketchbook and the forms come from imagination. As I compose them I am concerned about the relationships between the forms and spaces. Some forms are biomorphic, others mechanical/geometric and many combine the two. They are specific and abstract, and simple and complex. They create a fictional world and are evocative. Reflecting something deeper than formalism alone, they contain evidence of our culture at this time. My interest is in presenting them in a neutral manner. A description that is direct without interpretation. Merging realism and abstraction to open a void or silence, as Foucault states above, for the viewer to enter