"Synthesis" implies a fusion of disparate elements into a new entity.
My new body of work plays with these kinds of contrary images and marries them into a circus of incongruities that within its chaos has its own sense of flow. Creating an otherworldliness through abstraction, I hint at reality while never fully addressing it, creating a sense of ambiguity that I find indulgent and fully satisfying. You don't know what you're looking at but it looks like something and hopefully that something is interesting and compelling.

This work is meant to be experienced as a whole. Turning every corner should bring something unexpected, like a journey to some exotic locale, unknown and perhaps dangerous. Through scale I play with the notion of stepping into a space, like "Passage" - with its mountainous peaks looming over an ominous gorge. Or catching a glimpse of something fast and fleeting as in "Jam". There are moments of light, bright colorful flip fun butted up against dark rich nocturnal nebuli. By painting nostalgically I pay heed to a lush, romantic past that at times seems dirty and arcane. Then I switch over to imagery and technique that implies more futuristic visions of high tech glam and sci fi polish, glimmering with possibility while also appearing alien and scary. There is an interweaving within this back and forth. A fusion or overlap - a darkness in the soft folds, a glimmer in the watery chasm.
It is in this translucence where you can see one through the other that the patterns emerge and the whole is born.