Contrasting layers in my paintings role-play light & dark, real & fake, conscious & unconscious, analogue & virtual.
I start by spray painting after dark, in my backyard when the neighbors are supposedly asleep. And so, the backgrounds come about blindly. Then I make conscious decisions on how to project, screen, obfuscate, infiltrate, and ultimately harmonize with the celestial environments, even if there is some bickering along the way.
The titles of my works can be read as a dialogue between layers in the painting, the painting and the artist, or even the painting and viewer, and are often lifted from a 1973 book called, Metatalk: The Guide to Hidden Meanings in Conversation by Nierenberg and Calero.