Psychosomatics
August2017
Shown at Slice of Life
Works listed in order
︎ Parasite Painting:
Oil on canvas
36”x36”
︎ Smoke Fevers:
Oil on canvas
40”x30”
︎ Stacked Faces:
Oil on canvas
60”x 48”
︎ Guide:
Oil and acrylic on canvas
36”x24”
︎ Side Face:
oil on canvas
24”x20”
︎ Holy Book:
oil on canvas
20”x 16”
︎ Paint Eater:
oil on canvas
84”x 60”
︎ Confrontation:
oil on canvas
40”x 30”
︎ The Mona Lisa (stolen):
oil on corkboard
36”x 20”
︎ Schelling:
oil on canvas
28”x 42”
Psychosomatics was created simultaneously with the onset of a mysterious chronic illness and the resulting mental anguish from trying to work with a medical system that offers little help.
Painting became a refuge and a distraction from the never-ending symptoms. At times the work is dark and deals with mental difficulties that spur from this state or, it may attempt to represent the affect of living with a condition. At other times the work becomes a place of escape and is process based, finding beauty in working with the paint or imagining and depicting the simple pleasures that one still has access to while operating from a state of decreased ability.
Painting became a refuge and a distraction from the never-ending symptoms. At times the work is dark and deals with mental difficulties that spur from this state or, it may attempt to represent the affect of living with a condition. At other times the work becomes a place of escape and is process based, finding beauty in working with the paint or imagining and depicting the simple pleasures that one still has access to while operating from a state of decreased ability.
