We are living in an anxious era. The central idea of these paintings is to give voice to the unscreamed scream, to what has been silent and demands to be heard -- so that my point of departure is one highly charged with anxiety but also with the promise of breaking through. Water is a metaphor, both for keeping afloat and for a tide of change. The way that water alters gesture, conferring ambiguity and disguise but ultimately revealing all, suggests the necessity of opening our eyes under water, learning to see through moving water. Warren Buffet remarked that when the tide goes out, we find out who has been swimming naked. Amid fear and loss and disorientation, we are signaling wildly; this could be a time for making new connections and building new strengths. Read the 3 Quarks Daily interview.
 
 
  
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