I often combine opposing images in transparent layers in order to create a world in which everything has equal weight. In one painting a football game has a veil of a calm field at dawn painted over it; in this painting the heat of the battle has equal importance as a quiet lonely place. These different spaces symbolize a state of mind that often rests between two opposing points of view- what we are aware of and what subconsciously drives us suppress or evoke memories and emotion. My painting in this way is an effort to tap in to a subliminal vein or explore the subliminal nature of image making.
Many people today exist in two worlds, their exterior world and the virtual world. Some examples would be when people are at home on the computer, walking outside on cell phones with headsets or reading on a train. The lines between real space and imagined space today are very blurred. I hope to indirectly address these kinds of moments in my paintings with loose narrative.