Telling Time

The passage of Time, the western landscape, and exploring the themes of decline and renewal as a part of beauty are seminal to my work. The movement of day into night and one season into the next is dependable and rich in metaphor. This movement through the landscape is our most ancient and basic marker of Time.

Though each painting begins with a concrete landscape image that I have photographed, this image works only as a cue. It is not my intention to render what I see, but rather to amalgamate the land, vision, language, experience, memory, and time. Just as time erodes our memories, my process obscures concrete images, burying much of the seminal image beneath the surface of the painting. I intend to make the process visible in the work, and part of the metaphor.

This work was part of a solo exhibition at The Stable Visions West Contemporary art gallery in Jackson, Wyoming.