The Third Insight

My work is an ongoing investigation into duality, specifically, the connections between science and spirituality, and nature and technology. In my paintings, I arrange these seemingly opposite ideas into one harmonious whole. I often pair organic, geological or cloud-like forms with linear, geometric and synthetic forms to blur the boundaries between these dichotomies. There is a constant fluctuation between atmospheric and graphic, abstract and figurative, and quiet and chaotic. I also employ a range of digital tools alongside traditional and painterly materials to synthesize both machine and craft into the process of abstraction.
My work questions the ways in which these contrasting ideas are fundamentally connected. Does modern technology hinder or encourage our capacity for spiritual enlightenment? Where does the natural world end and the material world begin? What are the basic individual truths that connect every culture, philosophy, and religion of the world? My artwork does not strive to reveal an ultimate truth; rather, it questions whether an ultimate truth can truly exist in today's technological society.