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ARTIST STATEMENT
"The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see" -Philip Guston
My work explores memory, time, and perception through layered surfaces of oil paint, graphite, and charcoal on clay panels. By pouring, sanding, and rebuilding each painting, I preserve traces of earlier marks, suggesting a collection of time worn surfaces. The translucence of application possesses a simultaneity of appearance and dissolve. These layers function as a visual language of personal symbolism rather than fixed narratives. The paintings exist between abstraction and memory, where what is erased is as important as what remains.These residual marks act as a form of abstract graffiti—evidence of experience that communicates through suggestion rather than description.
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