A Thousand Secret and Scattered Yearnings

At one point or another I infuse my work with parody strategies, arbitrariness and ephemeral counteractions about love and affectionate feelings in a hostile world. Often burlesque-like and erotically hypersensitive, the images meander between a physical and mental existence that juxtaposes the nonsensical with the profoundly meaningful. The work becomes a site for sexual discourse often pushed into a precarious state, a state where one can get lost in a tangle of fear, desire and intoxication.

The motifs I use are based on the co-presence of memory and fiction, suggesting a miniaturized fairytale-like illusionary life that offers up all sorts of cosmic possibilities. Beginning invisibly and unconsciously, when the narrative and forms finally develop they become distilled, killed, seductive, lost, self-containing and overflowing.

Thus the activity of making becomes a meditation about pleasure, trauma and the difficulty of being, all the while distilling the senses and addressing quirks of the soul, which I want to articulate beautifully and idiosyncratically. Finally my paintings are ruminations about submerged eroticism played out against operatic opulence, refined and dressed to reflect the terrible melancholy of nostalgia and loss.