A series about juxtapositions. Dynamic street scenes – photographic in origin – are abstracted into monochromatic forms and gestures on raw linen.

Everyday life in NYC is a tangled chaos of beliefs, traditions and lifestyles where it is unlikely to be isolated for long periods of time. Unless, there is an emergency. Under lockdown and away from the studio, I escaped reality by imagining peaceful places. This is a collection of images where I might find peace.

This is the way I experience the city as walk about it. The energy is stimulating; however, taking in so many inputs at once also brings about a lack of clarity. The images in this series - photographic in origin - are stripped of all that I found unnecessary. They are no longer about representation and they are not about abstraction either. Each is reduced to the few details, shapes and colors which gave my moment stability.

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I want to create a window and bring a peaceful moment into a city apartment. Then, I could simply walk in the living room to escape and sit quietly on the beach. I could enjoy the sound of the distant waves, the feeling of the sand, and the endless sky. Tranquillity.

Sailors and explorers use the words “terra ferma” to announce the imminent end of a long, often arduous, voyage. The cry is simultaneously charged with the emotions that led to a departure, the struggles of the journey, and the joys of the arrival. It is a cry of relief and hope. Terra ferma has most recently come to represent the plight of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea in small crafts to land in Italy, Spain and Greece. The irregular migration from North Africa and Turkey has turned into a daily wave of thousands risking their lives to escape from Syria and other countries in the Middle East and central Africa. Personally, I feel this applies to the many waves of people crossing borders the world over simply in hope for a better life.

The images from this series are patchworks of struggles. They are impulsive expressions of the energy and commotion of my inner world.  As contrasting and contracting emotions battle to supersede one another, stories briefly bubble up to the surface and I rush to catch each bubble before the next surfaces. Some linger; some flee. Some are just left incomplete, as the color of a new sensation demands my attention. 

Reflections is unconscious work without any meaning or ideas. It is a collection of direct, spontaneous paintings which begun by mixing pigments directly on the canvas. Their blending and overlaying to contrast and highlight one another provide my only guidance. These paintings are impulsive reactions merely reflecting a status of mind. 

I use dripping layers of latex, enamel and acrylic paint on stretched cotton canvas to create this ongoing series. Each portrait is the unique, unstructured result of a single session while I recall images of the subject from my memories.

One of the things I have learned on this journey is that I am continually playing with elements, ideas, and colors. As I experiment and search for my own way to create, many of my works do not belong into a series. This is a collection of those works.