"My work explores the connection between the artist and the model, the energy exchanged between the two. It's about emotional response, tactile, visceral, abstract, created with a limited color palette, leaving the brush strokes and drips raw and unrefined. It's as much a conversation as a picture, a snapshot of emotion, a thread running between the observer and the observed. Connective Tissue."
From the Ephemeralia Series. A early painting from the Connective Tissue Series. I had Rachel sit for me and then change direction halfway through the pose. We would switch back and forth every five minutes or so, paying close attention to intersections an negative space. It’s curious how the figure on the left became more masculine.