Painting and Drawing

I’ve been studying Buddhism and practicing meditation for a couple of decades– so those experiences go deeply into all my studio work and my walking. As walking is a contemplative practice, painting is an extension of that walking, a slow immersive method of bringing mindful frames of being into my whole time of day and night.

My explorations and research outside my studio is as significant as what gets on the surface when I work. My paintings and drawings are palimpsestic maps of my body’s movements, dairies of subjective states within a nomadic pedestrian life. The figurative elements represent how I experience my body under its own locomotion or at rest when I meditate. Each painting takes about a season to paint and is a map of many journeys on foot that I hope is as immersive and contemplative for the viewer as the work of making it is for me.