statement
Looking at looking is hard but possible when its object is caught between departure and arrival. Too late to command, and too early to be complete, paintings, as image-objects, condense the programming power of images into a site, a place, an object. Held in suspension between states, the experience of seeing and the knowledge of what is seen wrestle with one another, each altering the other, while refusing resolution to either presence or knowledge alone. Through these acts of refusal, attention is not an industry, but an aid to refusal, where painting is suited to the presence of mediated states. It’s mediation at work. It generates something other than an expectation. Something else. A world that can be reimagined, where the mechanics of its own construction are laid bare for collective reassembly. Through sound, painting, objects and text, my own entry points are often ordinary, infra-ordinary sites, where mediation hosts misbehavior, subtle enough to miss on a first pass, which is exactly where they ignite.