How Astonishing It Is That Words Can Almost Mean, And Frightening That They Do Not Quite. (quote Jack Giblert) — *How Astonishing It Is That Words Can Almost Mean, And Frightening That They Do Not Quite.* (quote Jack Giblert)

About these works:

I am interested in the systems people create in order to organize what they perceive in the world around them. These systems can be based in science, religion, psychology, philosophy, or politics. No matter how cerebral a system or idea may appear it is always experienced through our physical senses. To communicate balance between reason and the senses I paint imagery of the body expressing emotional understanding juxtaposed with systems of verbal and/or mathematical language.

I use imagery of the body to depict moments of contact between the self and the other. The fragmentation of each moment lends ambiguity to both the pictorial space and to the boundary between the people portrayed. Typically, the work appears to be a unit that references objectivity and systemization via mathematical or scientific observation. When viewing the work at close range the system collapses, engaging the viewer intimately and personally. Due to the physical constraints of our being we are unable to interact with the work from both perspectives in the same time and space. My work makes this condition apparent, echoing our inherent struggle to simultaneously understand relationships from both the subjective and objective, the ordered and the chaotic.