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| My images are chosen for their visual and conceptual contrast, by arranging fundamental natural elements and manmade objects. Many contrasts are possible: small and enormous, hot and cold, stillness and movement, delicate and brutal, manmade and natural, ephemeral and infinite, calm and storm, fire and water or rain or ice, a lit falling match and the Antarctica wilderness, etc., though not all my contrasts are always opposities. These images, which could be written out as conceptual equations, are contrasted in the painting, which gives the image a logical pictorial basis and a consistency with the other elements. I avoid sensationalism in my images because, although it attracts initially, I feel it sours over time, as well as destroys the balance with the other three elements. The power of the painting should come from the aesthetic solidity and equality of the four elements: composition, color, surface, and image. I am only interested in the visual experience of the contrasts within these elements. My paintings have no specific verbal meaning, no intended symbolism outside of the visual occurance. |
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