My pattern paintings came about as an experiment to lessen the automatic associative tendency inherent in thought. It has occurred to me that The I is thought, so I wanted to withdraw The I from the process of painting to better observe what was left and repetition seemed the best way to bring this about. Engaging thought on technical concerns ( it’s domain of validity ) allowed The I to be observed in all it’s meanderings and at times stopping thought altogether. This creates a state of active meditation that reaches beyond the studio.

The organic abstractions are Me. Although the visual content of my painting radically changes through the years, these images are of the same time binding process that has built a sense of self. I liken this process to an expanding bubble in the midst of everything all at once that will eventually burst and be erased like the memory in a computer. It’s this vision that gives a hint of the vastness of the human organism and the limited yet over inflated self importance of the The I. After all it’s Me that is responsible for all human induce suffering isn’t it?"