This series of two older paintings is set up as a diptych (set of two panels side by side). When I made these, I was interested in painting at a level of abstraction that was more than broad strokes and bold expressions. I wanted to make abstract shapes contain a level of rendered detail, light, and illusionistic space, so that ambiguous form would begin to reveal the framework of a story or narrative. I think the imagery is suggestive of bodily parts, of a kinetic world of interiors turned outward, and of a moment of expired or suspended action.
"Dropping Non-sequitur"
"Spill your guts"
The second group is a triptych I made about a year later. My idea here was to use simple, bold graphic representations of almost elemental symbols: key, cup, knife. And then to give it a sense of drama as if these things somehow had an inner life of their own, as tools, but also as the symbol itself.
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