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Each painting of mine begins with a violent burst of energy. When I start, I try to work myself into an automatic frenzy not unlike the Abstract Expressionist painters, whom I admire very much. Working from a place of automatic gesture gives my paintings the sense of urgency that is their foundation. From my initial creative outburst, my process slows down and I render the hidden images that lie inside what was created during the early stages of the process. Faces melting, bodies becoming animals, and all manner of hallucinatory dream imagery awakens during this part of my process. While rendering these images I seek to imply more than communicate them directly. The desired effect of this is that the audience will have to decide for themselves what images they see. The process of viewing then becomes something that activates the unconscious of the audience, forcing them to define the painting rather than the painting defining itself.
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