Artwork Description:
borneo batik series:
through constant work in the studio to expunge the initial need to paint what is seen and through the passage of time and gaining familiarity with the theme at hand representation slowly gives way to abstraction. i try to incorporate signs, symbols and specific elements from the region.
i am not an immediate artist. i am not interested in capturing the light on a particular object, the beauty of an instant and much less the raw anger and frustration that sometimes assails me. my aim is to grab hold of the beauty and magnitude of things that escapes time the light followed by the rain followed by the mist followed by the night; the fire, the demise of the object and its rebirth and to do so i must repeatedly familiarize myself with a different type of vision that allows me to go beyond the three dimensions i seize in my normal state.