Origin paintings
These works belong to an earlier phase of my practice.
I no longer think of them as "old paintings."
I think of them as evidence.
Each one records a question I was living inside at the time.
They are artifacts from previous investigations.
The paintings remain available because every investigation eventually finds the person it was meant to accompany.
Origin painting _ 02023
- Year: 2023
- Medium: Mixed media on Arches cotton paper
- Size: 60" x 40"
- Available
Origin painting _ 02021
- Year: 2021
- Medium: Mixed media on Arches cotton paper
- Size: 60" x 40"
- Available
Origin painting _ 02021b
- Year: 2021
- Medium: Mixed media on Arches cotton paper
- Size: 60" x 40"
- Available
During this period I became interested in privacy.
I wondered whether intimacy could remain present without becoming fully visible.
Rather than illustrating that question, I tried to construct it.
Origin painting _ 02021red
- Year: 2021
- Medium: Mixed media on Arches cotton paper
- Size: 60" x 40"
- SOLD
Origin painting _ 02021 The Fountain
- Year: 2021
- Medium: Mixed media on Arches cotton paper
- Size: 60" x 40"
- Available
The Fountain may be displayed vertically or horizontally. Each direction changes its rhythm, its energy, and its relationship with the surrounding space. Neither orientation is primary; each reveals a different aspect of the same work.
Origin painting _ 02015 Baron Ashler
- Year: 2015
- Medium: Mixed media on Arches cotton paper
- Size: 60" x 40"
- Available
Baron Ashler traces one of the earliest origins of my fascination with duality. Named after Baron Ashura from Mazinger Z (my childhood introduction to the coexistence of opposites) the work is divided by a central axis and may be displayed vertically or horizontally.
Each orientation shifts its presence while preserving its identity. Looking back, I see it as one of the first portals I ever created.
Sharon II
The Sharon Paintings were created during a chapter of Miami that no longer exists. They carry the energy of a city that felt improvised, nocturnal, and full of possibility, when art traveled in the back of a car and every encounter could become the beginning of a story.
Sharon III
Sharon II and Sharon III remain as artifacts of that period.
Binary Code III embodies the idea that switching perspectives creates new realities. Conceived to be displayed vertically or horizontally, the work remains constant while the experience of it transforms.
Binary Code III
Sunset at Florida Keys IV grew out of a commission for a triptych created for a newly built home in the Florida Keys. Throughout the process, the owners shared photographs from their visits as the house slowly took shape. I found myself returning to those sunsets long after the commission was complete, inspired by the beauty of a place waiting to be inhabited. This is the last remaining painting from that series.
Perspective #3
I lost count of how many Perspective paintings I've made over the years. They returned to the studio again and again, almost as if they had their own momentum. Although each one follows a consistent method, no two arrive at the same place. Every painting is a different encounter with the act of seeing.
Totems
Every Totem Painting contains two orientations.
Vertically, it becomes an axis.
Horizontally, it becomes a landscape.
Neither is the "correct" reading.
The work completes itself in dialogue with the space and the person who lives with it.
Vertically, they become an axis.
Horizontally, they become a landscape.