Abstraction never held much draw for me, I’m more interested in a type of realism: how things are put together, how they exist in space, & their color. A while ago I was working on 2 large Nio figures, trying to capture their fierce energy and highlight their power by setting them against swirling, atmospheric backgrounds. Whatever I tried, I could not get the paint to activate the way I wanted. Frustrated, I decided to eliminate all recognizable content and see what would happen. I had fun playing around with paint and other media. I found that the images evoked specific imagery for me even though I had tried to leave it behind.
The body paintings here bring in some of the experiments and approaches from the abstracts work.
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