This group of works explores the meeting point between mimetic painting and experimental abstraction. These paintings are not concerned with absolutes or certainty. Raw matter's relationship with highly organized systems of forces is the theme that drives them.
The Planting Seeds paintings begin with experimental methods that further explore the techniques proposed in the Phosphorus Works. These techniques are a metaphor for the material world before the notion of named objects existed, therefor before language.
When the work reaches a high moment of potency the approach shifts. With traditional oil painting glazing techniques the abstract textures are given form and coaxed into an iconographic space. Continued application of thin veils oscillate layer by layer with the choatic fluid experimentation, a metaphorical contest between chaos and the organizing intelligence. A Gestalt world of forms begins to arise.
The individual work is the locus of turbulence between the representation of object in contest with the naturally occurring phenomena inherent to the material itself.