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River Baptism Diptych
Acrylic on canvas

In many of my paintings, I take dimensional work (sculpture, people, spaces) and seek to flatten the surface, in order to explore interior dimension.  In trying to be witness to another dimension, I discover both a faithfulness to dimensionality as well as a simplifying of lines. Painting is an attempt to understand the quality of something: the sound, the spirit, the witness, the silence, the motion—the Gospel recorded at its most basic lines and full expression. Trying to witness one dimension through the absence of another speaks to me of the work of icons. With icons we meet a flattening that is understood as dimensional (even supra-dimensional) at the same time, where the spiritual dimension, the source of light, speaks to the spirit. The removal of moving parts, as it were, sometimes allows us to see what is within, or behind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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