Welcome
I see my practice as an exploration into a self-contained world of control hidden by excess. I intend for my work to be defiant and belligerent in the face of current painting practices. I relish in the archaic and self-contained nature of my work.
The aesthetics of excess and the carnivalesque are celebrated in sublime compositions that reject political critique within art, and embrace an obsessive insularity. This is an opulent fortress within a fortress, a transgressive space. To the imagination, it is a perverse and carnivalesque world.
Rather than embrace modernist ideals, the old simply died and continued isolated and separated, pointless and lost in its own grandeur and excess, slowly being consumed by itself.
The paintings show an insular world caught in the romanticism of pre-revolutionary Europe. Occasionally glimpses of machinery can be found in certain pieces, as archaic versions of technology attempt to encroach into this world. The characters presented within this opulent fortress embody an obsessive, hungry Romanticism which almost falters on a precarious line between seduction and horror.
The subjects are often narcissistic, mercenary, even illicit in their connotations. They entice the viewer into a world in which they would become prisoner.