My paintings are the result of the accumulation of paint, deposited one tiny brush stroke at a time, over a long period of time. These marks combine to form interwoven images that flow across the central axis of the page where these compositions are isolated, as if under a microscope. This is fitting, as each painting represents a separate disease, each one closely studied, pulled apart molecule by molecule, and put back together on the canvas. These diseases, like Ebola, and (cancer) elicit a cringing response in people when mentioned, but under a microscope their sheer beauty is revealed as a structure. It is this dichotomy, between beauty and ugliness, which I am drawn to, and how something invisible (the disease) can be so threatening while the visible (the painting) can exist as a beautiful object. By making these microscopic entities visible, they are stripped of their volatility and rendered harmless, and drawn into our vernacular. The painstakingly process that a doctor studies an isolates each virus is paralleled by the meditative process I embark on in each paintings creation (and is passed on into the viewing process) I enjoy the obsessive-compulsive mark making and line work that I employ through the use of an eye dropper, a one-haired brush, and a magnifying lamp where I literally re-assemble each virus after a careful evaluation. It is methodical and meticulous, yet simultaneously poetic and free, like an Indian Mandela, where there is significance with the spiritual and ritualistic nature of things. I am moved by the inherent character of these diseases in their representational forms and the amorphous shapes that, when painted, hover between representational and abstraction where their beauty materializes through the combination of universals, such as color, line, and surface tension

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