This new collection marks the beginning of an exploration I'll be continuing through my 2027 solo exhibitions, built around the idea of Myth.
A myth is a story that tells itself through accumulation, not authorship. Across generations, telling after telling folds into a single place until it becomes a verbal roadmap, a way of moving through a time and space that continues to grow truer with every voice that carries it forward.
My paintings work through a version of this same accumulation. Each landscape is built from many real places and remembered fragments, settled into something that presents itself as whole and specific. I am not inventing these places so much as compressing them, the many becoming one the way accumulated story becomes a single path through country.
What is excavated from beneath each surface is not a hidden image waiting to be found, but a record of time that can be revisited and re-engaged. The viewer completes the telling, filling the unnamed place with their own memory, their own sense of where it might be. That act of insertion is the mechanism to which the story can continue to evolve.
A myth is a story that tells itself through accumulation, not authorship. Across generations, telling after telling folds into a single place until it becomes a verbal roadmap, a way of moving through a time and space that continues to grow truer with every voice that carries it forward.
My paintings work through a version of this same accumulation. Each landscape is built from many real places and remembered fragments, settled into something that presents itself as whole and specific. I am not inventing these places so much as compressing them, the many becoming one the way accumulated story becomes a single path through country.
What is excavated from beneath each surface is not a hidden image waiting to be found, but a record of time that can be revisited and re-engaged. The viewer completes the telling, filling the unnamed place with their own memory, their own sense of where it might be. That act of insertion is the mechanism to which the story can continue to evolve.
