ARTIST STATEMENT
December 2007
Formally, my shadow paintings aim to create a symbiotic relationship between contemporary art and nature. Theoretically, the series strives to live in the moment. In every instance, there exist uncontrollable variables which create unique experiences. However, these moments often expire unnoticed due to distractions by the unchangeable past or unpredictable future.
I am in awe of the elegant audacity with which nature reveals its moments. By bringing the canvas outside and painting fleeting plant shadows projected onto the canvas, I attempt to record and layer these moments. The works are then brought into the studio, where it is my challenge to transform the tracings into paintings. Ideally, these captured and altered instances of light (or the absence thereof) accumulate to invent another completely individual moment created by the painting itself.