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Artist Statement My new paintings are created on various surfaces, masonite, plexiglass, aluminum, or heavy raw duck canvas using acrylic, latex and oil paints. They are process driven works. My art-making methodology involves readying myself by means of Transcendental Meditation (relaxing and clearing the mind of preconceived images), and then executing some form of random mark, stroke, swath or pool of paint, and then each subsequent stroke is suggested from the previous. The idea is to get the painting to paint itself. The process and the resulting image then, is what the painting is about. I consciously try not to impose myself on the painting, yet become part of the natural random progression of the art. I choose the square as my basic plane because it speaks of power and control without imposing traditional image connotations. (The vertical rectangle is usually associated with portrait, horizontal with landscape.) The images are mostly unconscious or intuitive and are non-representational. The balances and interactions of the color, shapes and line are what interest me, and the way I attempt control over the random factors of the painting technique. |