My work is driven by my love of paint and its versatility in application and the effects that my surroundings form my view of the world. This series explores our evolving relationship with our planet, our quest for perfection, and our lack of focus on the smaller components to our world that make up the whole. In these EROSION works, I have explored the panel surface more than in previous works and literally pushed the paint itself to the breaking point. The title of this series of works is appt for two reasons. First, the nature of the paint on the surface of the panels themselves has a very organic look by both the three-dimensionality of the surface and the application of the paint. Paint drips down the panels as if slipping with out foundation. Paint washes break up and settle into crevasses like a river delta redistributing silt. The second reason for the series title is the connection to nature and our relationship to it. We cannot survive without it, despite our desire to control it. We have lost our connection to the Earth through our quest for perfection. We have developed a compelling need to dominate nature and bend its properties to our will. From the destruction of our forests, to the pollution caused by our irresponsible use of fossil fuels. Now why do we do this? It is again our continuing campaign to make everything perfect. We take these resources to feed our lifestyle. The question we need to ask ourselves is this: Can we reach this perfection when building upon a rotting history? Is this lifestyle worth jeopardizing the future of mankind? By bending the natural world to fit our needs, we have lost sight of how we are affecting vital ecosystems and food chains on which we depend. This is the house of cards we have built. We were started on this path at the beginning of the industrial revolution and we haven’t looked back since. We must re-evaluate our current trajectory and look at where we are headed and if that is where we really want to be.
