Artistic Practice and Process

I see my practice as building from layers of prior work. My works are less images and more layered objects, structures, entities, or places, existing within a kind of topographic landscape of accumulated time and decision.

The word image comes from the Latin imitari, to copy or imitate, related to imagination, the mental conjuring of something. The Latin imaginem, beyond referring to likeness, also suggests ghosts or phantoms. That is closer to how I understand images in the studio. They function as ghostly layers, always on the verge of appearing or disappearing, resisting fixed identification without abandoning intention or purpose.

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Other:

I find that I don’t get to make exactly the work I am trying to make. I get to make something else. I try to make a truce with that.

Or

With all my intentions to make new drawings, I don’t always succeed in making what I want. I make something else. I try to make a truce with that.