ARTIST STATEMENT

Hard to describe in words

But how do u describe the sound

Of jazz?

The new is old

renewal is constant

Lines and forms cling to each other, to give birth to a new form

It has never been my way

To draw or paint from life

Distant memories

Are the thread

I like to pick my brain

And see what life has taught me

So far...

How do u weigh money

Against a painted crimson sun?

A female torso

Caressed by a tree

Is it an illusion?

Or perhaps just a thrifty jacket with a painted tree on the back? Her back?

What does it all mean?

The eye’s mind can alter a visual image

Anyway it wants

A viewer can discard it

Then it’s no longer art

Another can uphold it to higher standards

Then it’s art