Quarry is a series of colláge paintings that explore the transitory nature of human emotion through the language of abstraction.  These shapes, or “bodies,” rendered on flat backgrounds suggest living things, minute and mutating, magnified for observation.  The use of sumi ink on paper references character-based languages in which subtle changes in tone and rhythm can alter meaning.  Similarly, we humans react emotionally to shifts in atmosphere and environment that are often intangible, invisible and indescribable.  Only through abstraction can we communicate with any accuracy a suspension in time, a moment of pause - of anxiety or clarity - between emotion and action.

This series began many years ago with a mining of my inner self and the confrontation of intense feelings associated with addiction recovery, healing after personal trauma, and bearing witness to the unraveling of order and fall into chaos of the world as made visible by the media.  Hope, however elusive, lies in the capacity to make beautiful things out of pain, for I’ve found it to be the rawest and most precious material, extracted from the deepest, darkest places of the soul.