"The Internal Landscape of Thought"

Semi Abstract Thought

This piece is part of a series of paintings I did back in who knows when. It was a product of the consequences of 23 years of paintings, sketches, searching, thinking, and doing. There is a painting I did, which will be named later, that started this entire style. While I was painting one day it dawned on me that I could just paint a million little paintings and they could all make up one piece. Often, actually forever, I have struggled with content, with the thoughts of “what do I paint”, “what can I paint that is different”, “how do I do it”, “what can be done that has not been done”, all these and more are questions that led to this piece.

The end result was just keep painting, filling the canvas with tiny little paintings, fill the little spaces and then eventually the entire canvas gets filled. I have included a slide that shows the progression and comparison of the paintings that are similar to and exhibit this same style. This is one of the only paintings that I actually finished while it was stretched on the wall of my home studio. I have included a picture of that too.

It was stretched and completed next to three other paintings of the same size and style. They all look good next to each other, and they were each consequences of the other. This painting eventually hung in my stepson’s room, his name is Rex. He is a phenomenal musician; a brilliant kid, and we connected on some level I believe in the ten years I spent with him.

We designed a small music studio in his room that was super chill. I hung this piece in his room, and I sometimes imagine he looked at it often and wondered, getting lost in thought about who knows what.

That is all I ever want with my paintings; for them to be hung and looked upon, thought about, and even more so that they send the viewer into their own thoughts. My art is kind of like music without words; as I listen to wordless music, I am free to think whatever, my mind is free to roam without the guide and control of lyrics. My paintings allow your mind to wonder without the control of recognizable content.