My current series of drawings focuses on the space between images and words. I

feel a person can speak more clearly and accurately if they were to just take the

time to carefully select their words, many or few. I also feel that visual trickery,

optical lies and technical magic tricks are more of a distraction from a drawing or

painting than they are help. I doubt quite heavily that Emerson, Twain, Bukowski,

or Blake put much thought to the aesthetics of their penmanship. I also would

venture to say that none of these men would have written so fluently if they had

been encumbered by the worry of the neatness of their hand. I am always much

more captivated by a painting that makes me ask myself why the image was made

rather than a painting that makes me wonder how it was made. And it is by this

belief that I have come to this process of “written images.” These drawings are

intended to be "read" rather than looked upon as a visual object. I view my process

as more of a writing endeavor than one of drawing. Instead of taking a

condensed idea and attempting to expand it into something much more than it

needs to be, I feel that it is much more affective to leave the words to their own

virtue. Finally, I am well aware that all knowledge, truth, and philosophy is entirely

subjective and thus all ideas are understood subjectively. Because of this

subjectivity I feel it is necessary to allow my drawings the freedom to be

interpreted subjectively and not attempt absolute specifics for they well be lost

anyway. A person can much more readily understand the nature of something if

they are allowed to see their own reflection in it.