16 October 2025
It occurs to me as I'm keeping on with this new body of work that, of the ten or so paintings I have around, only one is depicting a recognizably human figure. And yet the others still essentially feel like surrogates for the figure in their presence, physicality, and nonintellectual genesis—these are embodied scenes that are derived from and digested by the senses first and foremost, which seems to increase their ability to carry information about space and time that would otherwise be hampered by something deliberately chosen, pre-judged, or symbolically addressed. I think cultivating this trust in a naturally occurring subject matter via deliberate but open-ended tuning to and awareness/observation of everyday life is becoming really important for clearing the way toward getting at deeper problems of image and representation in paint.