Bugs, Birds, Butts, Bellies and Trees, 2008
In these paintings, all created on a traditional marble ground gesso surface, I combine organic forms --distended and distorted tree limbs, insects, birds, intestines, breasts, bellies, feet, genitals-- in order to show the interconnected relationship between creatures we consider separate from ourselves. Exploring the intimate quality of line and the explosive quality of color, I examine how the natural world is constantly being damaged and consumed, as well as how it in turn, is consuming us.