One time I came to a village on foot. One time I sat in a grotto of trees looking up to a barren mountain. One time I got threatened by a wild animal. One time I sat by myself in a town square. One time I sat by candle light. These experiences gave me a great sense of timelessness.
My current method of working consists of painting directly on an oversized piece of unstretched canvas stapled to the wall - beginning with applying a pink-ish hue thinned out with turpentine and then scrubbed in with a piece of cloth. This represents our insides that are the source of our sensory system. Then the dimensions of a picture are inscribed with a pencil and thinned dark oil paint. When work starts, the process involves the constant addition and subtraction of paint of varying degrees of density and viscosity, resulting in surfaces at times thick and at others thin. It is all about the immediacy and responsiveness of the process, the simultaneity of thinking and making. It is a long preparation for a few moments of innocence.
Village 190x140 - Dust on an Old Man’s Sleeve 35x24 - The Saragossa Manuscript 220x190
