I'm currently developing paintings of varying sizes, mostly composed of New England woods that I have walked through on foot. The works are made from digital patterns I make from photographs, which I then paint on Duralar, a wet media acetate. The patterns are derived from the photographs, but also abstract and blur the photograph to a greater or lesser degree, depending upon scale and complexity of the image.
I'm looking for a painting whose marks land between textile stitch, Impressionist mark and digital pixel. The paintings I'm making blur between a focused Photorealism, a computer-generated pattern and a fetishized repetition of an acrylic paint mark. Much of what I do is mix and organize color. I want the experience of my paintings to be much like walking in the woods. Surrounded by a fabric of green, an excess of detail, the labor of making the painting stands as a devotional homage to the complexity and slow growth of the forest. The painting space both slows you down to a single greenspace and holds you within many particular and singular snapshots in time.
I hope to image the woods in its current state, as it exists now, near me, in order to see what we have now. We have precious resources that may be humble scrub brush or elegant old growth forests, all worth documenting as they are seen in our moment.