Paintings

Wallflower Small

Wallflower Large

Wallflower Medium

The “Wallflower“ series,  large, medium, and small, are all portraits and self-portraits.  They deal with inadequacies, discomforts, actions, and reflections. The physical look and feel of the pieces are worn and battered, a physical and mental depiction of city living, society, of life.  The use of a floral inspired image emerged from the need of a mental anchor;  something that is ubiquitous and that everyone can recognize.  I wanted something that I had no attachment to, something that I could manipulate and bastardize without any worry or care of form or recognition.

Fragments

 I love the city, I love the streets; the grit, grime, and all the shit that goes with it.  I am constantly being bombarded with advertisements, graffiti, and trash, piled one on top of the other.  I see something put up one day and it torn down the next.  I love the fragments,  the bits and pieces left behind, not remembering what they belong to.  The images, like all the people, disregarded.  ”Fragments.”