Transformer Paintings

Beautiful instability, ephemerality, change over time, shifting perspectives, ‘mono no aware’ (appreciation of transience)… all run throughout my work.

The Transformer paintings constantly shift optically due to reflective, refractive, burnt, gold-leafed, crystallized, oxidizing, lensed, opalescent or phosphorescent, surfaces. They change due to the observer (their clothing color and form reflecting on the surfaces), the setting (amorphous depth created in the painting by the room), time (looking different as light shifts over the course of the day or seasons), and position, as they have complex bas relief surfaces — hints of matrices, crop circle, glyphs, text, braille, weather systems — that only reveal at oblique angles.