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My paintings are a way to communicate without words. They posses a clear vocabulary made from an alphabet of moves. I load my brushes with glossy oil paint in saturated colors and slowly apply them to a smooth surface. Various tools are used to add, remove, and reshape the oil into new patterns and layers of space. The brush strokes slide, twist, and coil with multiple colors to create elongated taffylike shapes that create tension. Rolling ribbon candy bands vibrate and undulate. The surface is clear, enabling the natural light to find its way through the crevice between the wall and the painting. Light enters from behind, slipping through the breaks between the strokes, and illuminating the paint quietly, without force. The smooth surface adds to the slick and elusive quality of these highly saturated wet paintings. There is a suggestion of space or place without direct reference. The language made from this vocabulary is elusive, slippery, and vaguely erotic.