In deep cavernous cellars a ship’s cargo is torn asunder as sagging splintering boards and chunks of pure ice and snow are borne foaming along the sides of a vessel. Loosening cords, folds of flattened sails, perfumes, spices, precious gems, fabrics and bales of purple are all carried out to sea. Gelatinous masses uncoil on the thick waves as infinitely long strands of algae float on the surface and stretch sinuously toward the horizon. Long spirals and thick tangles of soft leaves and feathers rise slightly above the water, forming low mountain ranges. The ocean scatter’s, piles up, and whirls planks of wood undulating between the curves which furl like cloth and the majestic impact of their fall reveals a passageway entombed in a wall of ice cascading into spouts of foam. Tiny rivulets plummet from summits rising higher and higher. Laminated fluorescent algae and spume reverberate; the moon reflects an iridescent agony in violet and pearl that glow on the ship’s decks. The oars fall back heavy, engrossed in plumage; cypresses and feathers caress a wall of water to reveal a sunken city, temples, arches, palaces, imposing terraces, hanging gardens, vaults, and the banks of a distant shore. Cool water laps white marble stones. Fiery burnt embers rise out of a fuming sea. Broken steps and great walls are reduced to rubble. Columns split and tarnished with debris, bearing the weight of wet robes which bow humbly before a luminous towering pedestal of rock.

The patterns and cross hatchings I depict remain enmeshed in a landscape of perpetual motion. The texture and harmony of style in my work reference sinuous fibrous knots, embedded mesh, muscle tissue, bone, and fish guts. I strive to create a sticky web-like texture that ruptures onto the canvas to form solid dynamic movement. The large masses swallowing and spitting up frothy brine combine with elements of seascape to evoke large undulating oceanic forms separating and re-joining in gigantic sweeping masses. I use various textural devices to manipulate scale and dimension in order to create elaborate designs that with the use of color create a tension which elevates the lattice work to the levels of the transcendent and the sublime. I employ black archival ink and color paint markers over thin washes of oil paint on linen or spray-painted fiberboard.