Artist Statement from 2003
These paintings illustrate the enigma of the body. Not the body as an object or organism that poses questions for science. But the body as an experience we live, a unique opening onto a world that possesses us more than we possess it. These works are meant to suggest that the experience of embodiment demands something more than what science teaches us about bodies. Rather than viewing the body as a kind of carnal steam engine that can be made more and more efficient, these works return to a place where bodies are lived. And where they are lived is in the past, present and future. In other objects and other people.
These paintings illustrate the enigma of the body. Not the body as an object or organism that poses questions for science. But the body as an experience we live, a unique opening onto a world that possesses us more than we possess it. These works are meant to suggest that the experience of embodiment demands something more than what science teaches us about bodies. Rather than viewing the body as a kind of carnal steam engine that can be made more and more efficient, these works return to a place where bodies are lived. And where they are lived is in the past, present and future. In other objects and other people.
