Artist Statement:

My paintings are my silent companions. I usually use discarded surfaces like old doors to paint on. In a trance, I literary start cooking. I place the door on the ground outside, and without a plan, I splash glue, varnish, sand, grasses and plants, cheap house paint, and salt on it. I employ wooden sticks to stir and twist as if cooking stew or soup. The result is a grainy, uneven surface displaying basic shapes and forms. Next, I randomly pick pastels, house, and acrylic paint, and I allow my hand to autonomously and rhythmically carve out contours and add layers of colors. Neither at this stage do I have a plan or even aesthetic guidelines. I’m driven by excitement and curiosity. It is possible that what I happen to be reading or studying when I’m working on a particular piece finds its way indirectly onto the surface, but it’s never premeditated. I’m passionately interested in various forms of mental and spiritual alchemy. I’m also a member of a group studying and practicing theurgy and related esoteric traditions. I’m sure the effects of these activities bleed over into my visual work. A quote by Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo sums it up nicely for me: “I deliberately set out to make a mystical work, in the sense of revealing a mystery, or better, of expressing it through ways that do not always correspond to the logical order, but to an intuitive, divinatory and irrational order.”