An Artist Statement (of sorts)
People sometimes ask me “why don’t your girls smile? Are they
sad about something?”.
This often puzzles me.
As a pop surrealist painter, to me my
little girls are not “girls”. They are my Waifs. To me they are Symbols of the
innocence and fragility we have all had a connection to at one point or
another.
Some of us lost it gradually, naturally,
some of us gave it away willingly, and some of us had it stolen away, but we
all remember a time when we were so small and the world was alive with
strangeness and wonder. With the confusion of unknowing, and with the bliss of
innocence. My girls symbolize this, and their somber little faces and alien proportions
cry out to the viewers “it is gone, it is gone!” Their faces Know what we now
know.
It’s beautiful and sad, but beautiful. It’s something we all share.
As an artist, my driving goal is: in everything I do to Simply
Create Beauty and to Tell a Story. I love to connect with people through my
images. That Connection is my driving force in creation.
I want to touch you. I
want to give you a moment, maybe just a millisecond scrolling through a feed or
turning a page - a moment of prettiness.
A moment of strange lovely.
I am not trying to shock you.
No blood and guts. No organs
or religious symbols.
I’m not going to smash something in your face and say “Look
at this! Understand it!” I want my work to be something we share. Something for
both of us.
Whether you see a somber little girl sad about something, or a
symbol of innocence riding a dinosaur, whatever our shared truth it’s something
we have together.
Something Beautiful.
