In the Glass Works, I explore the boundaries of contemporary image-making. By sandwiching paint, pigments, raw elements of nature, and Kodak prints between glass and canvas, these 14 x 11-inch paintings establish a dynamic dialogue with the viewer and the environment through highly reflective quality of some material combined with glass. The structural layering of glass mimics our ubiquitous daily interactions with digital screens, prompting the viewer to interrogate illusion, reality, originals, and copies. These sensory details tap into the known and unknown corridors of memory across space and time, prioritizing intuitive perception over analytical context. Each of these works has a secret twist. The tension between what we initially notice and what is actually there resonating through our encounter.
My first series of Glass works is the Island Series.
The collective unconscious is common to all: it is the foundation of what the ancients called the sympathy of all things. It is through the medium of the collective unconscious that information about a particular time and place can be transferred to another individual mind. Blue is the color of the oceans...