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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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