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Items found in the work are domestic in nature, small and unassuming. Pattern. Repetition. Everyday stuff.
It is difficult to choose one favorite artist as an influence . . .this is a conglomeration of many things. Art history, other artists, film, food.
Goya's prints are inspiring in terms of their horrific images so beautifully crafted. Octavio Paz's eloquent writings come to mind while contemplating admired creators and also Alfredo's Castaneda's paintings of visual poetry. A Terry Gilliam film, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen has a theme of faith in magic and beauty, which are in danger of becoming extinct. These are issues that concern me and I hope that viewers find a bit of humor and whimsy in the work where the banal becomes magical.
Decoration and how we adorn our environments and ourselves are practiced and at times are literally found in the work. There is power in creating space. Space that breathes is more intriguing than space that is dead, or too still. Gorgeous pastry decorating is also admired. These feast for the eyes are sinful and yet still consumed, like a Rococo piece of art that is border line heavenly and tacky all at once. The overload on sugar and embellishments may inflict a realm of dizziness and upon recovering reminds one of our humanness.
One last artist to note, Remedios Varo and her painting Natural Death: The viewer finds a table spinning and raising off the ground while the place settings and citrus fruits are taking flight and at times collide into one another. One may wonder what event they have happened into with high-speed swirling fruit and dishes. If an orange is sought after it may dissolve at the touch of a fingertip, after which the realization that one may have grasped a brief point of beauty or knowledge possibly fading as quickly as it was reached. All becoming a memory or a dream that was far away.
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