Perceptual Abstraction
If I could really slow down the way I see, put a camera in my mind, and take stills and then make a montage of the individual elements of information I saw as I looked around the room, I think it would look something like one of these paintings.

When you explore movement in drawing, both physical and mental, you end up recording transparent levels of real space; the result can be viewed as a mental architecture. This is certainly true for the paintings, as they demonstrate my mind’s ability to restructure and color space for aesthetic and expressive means.

At some point in time during the process, I have to deal with the fact that the proportional relationships of what I carefully just drew no longer matter. The perceptual process explores the problem of ordering visual information which is in a state of constant flux. There is no better way to explore and articulate my mind’s disposition over real physical space then by perceptual drawing.

I find this process of painting to truly reflect decision. It is a means of engaging the nature of the mind with the complexities of the real world. In the newest works, a group which will be completed by the end of summer, I am listening to things I have often overlooked. For example, as I am coloring a shape and my focus changes, I leave it at that, the shape remains open. I am trying to control less and respond more. As a result I see the color integrating more into different layers, allowing the space to be more atmospheric without losing its flatness. Please stay tuned for these new works and visit wooloo.org/er for online shows which will chart their progress-starting 6/23/08.