Over Under II

Oil on canvas.

Borrowing from the tradition of chorography (mapping based on perception versus analysis), I paint associations of place. My work considers themes of appropriation, the search for understanding one's roots to the land, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. The horizon emerges as a device, a means of orienting myself in the composition. In exploring these transactional spaces through abstraction, I define color and form, and then build and remove layers in a physical manner; wiping, scraping, scumbling. These actions allow me to mimic how we reveal and obscure information.