In Graffiti from the Future I explore what art might look like 1000 years from now by using light and dark contrasts, soft and hard edges, small and large forms, and robust, sweeping, spontaneous gestures and delicate, deliberate marks. This series takes its inspiration from diverse sources such as James Joyce's Ulysses and the cave paintings at Font de Gaume in France. Everything that makes us human is distilled into a language unreadable, yet universal, inscrutable, yet familiar. 

Artist Statement;

The irrepressible desire to express, to create, in spite of an environment hostile to self-expression, is behind my work. This series asks the question; What is more painful; to create and be criticized or to hide one’s light, never sharing one’s true self?

I am exploring the dialectical difference between what is concealed and what is revealed. First, I create a painting with which I am pleased for its aesthetic qualities, and then I summon the courage to obscure most of that painting with another painting on top of that one. Then, using a new technique I developed, I reveal some of the original painting. By obscuring my painting and then removing part of the obfuscation, I seek to create a dialog in the liminal space between experience and memory. 

How do we overcome the pain of the past and find ourselves willing to be vulnerable, to share that most tender and delicate and real part of ourselves with the same world that once silenced our voice?