Lights

These paintings record various appearances of light: skies, the moon, streetlights, light bulbs, radiation, reflections. They portray what the eye takes in, in the immaterial sense. Layering imagery from photographic sources and from life, they combine multiple perspectives, which are interrupted by areas of empty paper. The white page creates a field in which gravity is suspended. The sky hangs above, objects hover in air or balance on the edge of the page, creating a feeling of vertigo. This makeshift viewpoint and confusion of scale breaks apart the image as it assembles it. The pictures are a space to measure and compare without resolving, in keeping with the subject of lights.

November 2008