I paint travelers, soldiers, and drifters into landscapes where personal and historical mythologies collapse into one another. These people move through terrain without arriving at a fixed destination. They are defined by endurance rather than triumph, and by the solitude that arises from being small against a vast and indifferent land. This is the masculine condition as I understand it from the inside. It is a condition of exposure rather than heroism or irony.
I am more interested in a specific luminosity than I am in a concrete narrative. This luminosity is a glow that emerges when the figure and the landscape achieve genuine equality, with neither subordinating the other, both generated by the same painterly impulse. When I am painting, I can feel when this glow exists and when it is absent, and that feeling is what I pursue. The figures in my work are present yet unresolved, with mask-like faces and identities suspended between the specific and universal. My surfaces are never settled but are worked until something unstable holds. In this way, the painting is finished not when everything is answered but when it comes alive.