I'm a printmaker by trade, for over 30 years I've spent my days building images that represent my client artists well thought out desires. I also spend an unqualified amount of time studying mistakes, trying to mitigate them though I do find them fascinating, yet really not the goal.

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Then I do this -

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This is my work as it's filtered out through the years. Some prints and drawings, some painting and digital prints and metal work. My aesthetic comes to me through the meditation on work, the application of colors, the repeated lines, the intricate layering, the fraught edges, the mishaps. I endeavor to make art that reflects this aesthetic and exudes a sublime being. This can't happen quickly, textures must accrue, spatial elements must coalesce, fog must disperse and condense. I'm very process oriented and particularly this meditative action of process. Spanning the rough hewn to the fetish finish. Often derived from nature but departing representation.

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Many of my interests look towards biology, organics and the interconnection of every element and molecule on the planet, the life cycle and exchange of energy between all life forms whether predator or prey, consumer or consumed, death and decay and the fertilizer it provides. In nature the shape of the land and it's flora and fauna are afflicted as they age, as we age and are subject to the perturbations of our environment. We come to look on the extreme instances as examples of beauty. It can be awe inspiring because we are so intimately attuned to it. Nature is the Wabi-Sabi spirit. We walk these places, inhabit them because it is us, we are in nature, of nature, of the planet. Revel in it.

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Thus - 

“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” (Stanley Kubrick)