Systems of thought and organization overlay and sometimes obliterate our physical being even as they spring from that same human physicality. They create and destroy, transcend and debase. Precepts form cohesive groups and tear people apart. Amazing feats and fresh horrors abound.

The subjects of my work are made partial, disassembled, transformed, inverted, reconstituted and renewed by the grid – a basis of many systems. Through its use, the outlines, harmonies, fissures and conflicts of human system building and its power relationships can be brought forward for examination. Systematic and categorical tendencies, which grow from and exist among countless human brains, are symbolically re-enacted or re-figured.

The experience of the individual viewer who confronts one of my pictures, and the statements which flow from attempts to reconstruct it, represent the “completion” of the work. Strict representation and abstract formalism coexist and yet act to prompt questions about ways of seeing, identifying and expressing, perhaps conflating what is usually taken to be quite separate.