2020-2022 rust / blemish / flesh / rot
Dad talked the entire drive about metal and bodies, his eyes lay heavy on the road refusing to make eye contact, as I imagined their bodies and mine.
Oil on canvas
2022
Subjects ranging from my grandfather’s grapevine, afternoon drives with my father, a school-yard confrontation, are remembered visually, through formal languages of abstraction. Layering, glazing, mark-making, colour and paint opacity are strategies that work to both reveal and conceal the subject. Remembered images are simplified representationally, yet reveal themselves as complex in their formal and material surface. Paintings help to visualize the unseen strain and tension of remembering. The resulting paintings have two subjects; the painted surface and my memories. Can the process of remembering be understood as an act of observation?