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I am a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for the past 23 years. My pictures are created through a process that is largely improvisational and which relies, to a certain extent, on accident. I usually begin a picture with a vague sense of what I want to draw, but after I put the first lines down on paper or canvasette, a process begins and I add smudges, drips, blurs, and erasures that follow a logic that is part of the developing process itself. Eventually, some sort of ordered whole emerges from this process.
I often begin a picture, then put it away and come back to it a day or two later. I seem unable to think of my art as legitimate 'work'; rather I view it as a somewhat furtive and solitary -- but very pleasurable -- activity, and so I usually draw at night.
I think that my pictures reflect my anxieties; my themes and images express a part of myself that is removed from my day-to-day concious rational life and work. I become more familiar with this inner life by means of the images that derive from it.
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