Actually, my paintings are not paintings... They are things!

They are not "images" or fictitious realities. 
They are objects in their own right. They are what they appear to be: things of pure color, shape, density, and surface.
The work I'm trying to develop does not signify any esoteric self-referentiality.
Instead, my practice focuses on translating the energy that emerges from my environment and experiences into physical form. 
Forms crowd the canvas or the walls, asserting themselves within the space they inhabit.
It is a competition between the form and the surface it occupies... a fight for dominance. The viewer is pushed back by the density of the shapes and then drawn back by the tactility of the layered colors.