I delight in pouring paint, separately initiating and creating forms of unchecked fluidity, then complicating this single-gesture process by collaging and pouring over these collected episodes of paint. Here different time periods, moods and perceptions, colors and spaces are pieced together as part of the evolution of the painting and can vibrate side by side, giving way to a new reality.
My process emphasizes the ecology of the 'found,' in which miscellaneous objects are transformed and seen again. The process is self referential in the same way that a crazy quilt reflects the vignettes and life patterns of its makers. The poured paint pieces are collected and relegated to a pile much like a collection of articles of clothing on a job lot table-many times perused, examined, and rejected. Finally, a paint piece that has been there all the time waiting for discovery strikes an intuitive cord and is added to the painting. In this way I keep my process open through reshuffling disparate collected pieces and assembling them in equally disjunctive sequences. Each painting carries with it the potential of evolving into an alternate painting.
Though the paintings draw on formal relationships, the color references the contemporary absurdity of the real world, from Ralph Lauren house paint chips to home shopping items and the hard-hitting meltdown of computer graphics. Humor plays a role through the choice of color and the play of shapes against one another aided by irony and non sequitur choices.
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