Artist’s Statement

I don't give much thought to continuity while conjuring ideas. Even though I don't give much thought to continuity, I'm consistent in my lack of continuity. My combined artistic and musical outputs are firmly self-categorized as Surrealism, Futurism, Primitivism, Abstract Expressionism, Dada, Pop, Classical, Industrial, and Fusion.

The initial drawings for my painting Belinelli were based on the first four creatures I thought of: firefly, lamb, rubber ducky, and a human. The next step was to form them together into a version of Frankenstein's monster. Like most of my artwork, there is no theme or explanation, because I don't want to give one. (I'm an ambivert). You the viewer are supposed to make that decision. Speculative themes continually run through my mind: satire, percussion, melodies, improvisation, sports, ghosts, aliens, animals, philosophy, science, and astronomy. My conscious mind is selecting random subjects, which may have been developed in the subconscious aka psychic autonomism aka surrealism.

The album cover art I made for Confined to Infinite Space by the band Origin of Animal did not have a deeper metaphorical concept during preliminary sketches besides my wanting to make a more surreal version of a photo of Phillippe Petit making his famous unauthorized high wire walk between the World Trade Center Twin Towers in 1974, but upon completion the title of the painting became the title of this band’s third album. The painting is of a person on a tightrope but is like our being confined to all time and space with endlessness or lack thereof. Limited infinite outcomes or depths make it lonely like outer space. Not necessarily like being quarantined, yet he is on a tightrope, so he is literally working with no space or margin for error. Conversely, he is surrounded by all sorts of open space. The people in windows or apartments could be confined to quarantine as in a mental amount of infinite space but also knowing there is so much beyond those walls they cannot explore. Traveling through time and space is limited to resources and long periods of time. Time travel is not physically possible; however, in the afterlife, it most certainly seems to be.