ALCHEMICAL TRANSMUTATION

I paint with acrylic-urethane formulations I craft while working. Some applications are layered, suspended. Others are piled into deep impasti. The paints are responsive to changing light due to inclusions: copper powder; ground tires; reflective particles. As the result of movement, of shifting perspectives, they affect body and vision. 

My alchemy is operational. Transformations wrought from the five elements—fire; water; earth; air; and æther (the physics of gravity and time)—are studio processes and philosophical anchors. I create from loss, distortion, and impermanence, and my imperfect attempts at resolution.

I channel all my work. Analysis interests me—after the fact. Armatures, grids, golden sections align at compositional inflection points. Evident throughout my oeuvre is what Charles Bouleau called "diagonal dynamism." 

Sacred geometry is the compositional scaffold, upon which I drape numen.

I live drifting among heavens and hells; these paintings are the result.

Close-up photo of an artist's work surface showing several paint bottles, spray bottles, and mixing cups filled with various colors including red, black, and yellow. The containers and surface are splattered with paint.