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“Everyone is so near, so alone.” My aim is to present the human condition with an odd tension in the most non-narrative perspective. |
“Everyone is so near, so alone.”
My aim is to present the human
condition with an odd tension in the most non-narrative perspective.
The paintings from this study are not intended to suggest a specific
concept or corner the viewer into one perspective. The figures and
imagery certainly are designed to reflect emotion and strong feelings,
just in a manner that will have the audience recognize these emotions
and then seek with the imagination a story or cause. The viewer does
not have guide lines for his emotions, he recognizes a human condition,
but will not have much of a hint as to “why?” My paintings are eerie,
forcing the viewer to “think”. It is not my purpose to make complicated
art, my idea is rather simple- the reflection of the human condition,
found as public and private, by the viewer. The goal of creating a
sense of public and private is a major part of my personal and
professional ideas. The paintings I created within the past three years
are strongly derived from this concept as a root of a more specific
idea. Some of them are a bit more dream like, some are more
realistic–but all of them lead the viewer to the main focal point–the
human. The very large-scale format allows me to articulate the
emotional impact with my full physical and mental energy, which becomes
both, part of the imagery and the composition.
