I'm a writer and visual artist. My work is often about experience refracted through history and memory, art and literature, movies and dreams. Images and language pair off and dance in the slant, or go on to solo spins.
For many years my painting and writing were largely separate realms. Over time my visual work has become smaller and more direct. I like the portability of a paintbox/sketchbook/notebook, of being able to write, paint and draw any where, any time. I prefer an open-ended process that finds unplanned images and stories in erasers and fragments. Paintings, drawings and language that show a certain "distressed" surface often result.
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Perhaps the change in scale has let in my writing; increasingly, paintings and drawings have become part of stories, essays, or novels. Narrative conjures pictures, and pictures suggest stories, while the physical acts of picture making and writing share an entanglement beyond the strictly illustrative, or projective. Into mystery.