There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Emerson, Nature

My paintings and drawings are made up of clusters of shimmering brush-marks. Each painting on its own is a fragment. Put together by the viewer, the whole picture is integrated incrementally in the present. Just as a piece of turf cut from the ground will act as a standalone fragment of the whole, so the paintings are cut away of the world. Each painting is a stand in for the whole, every mark a shortcut to an actual experience, either light, or touch or nature. Working in series and through repetition, the paintings, drawings, watercolors and monoprints cohere through the accumulation of brushstrokes accrued across each single fragment. As a spear of grass is nourished by a drop of water, so the paintings grow from the safflower oil, binder and pigment. The work is besotted with their constitutive materials.