Transfiguration
Oil, fire ash, tar on board, 19" x 30"

 

"By its own fascinating force, ugliness, which in the real repeats its archipelic forms, confronts the artist like a challenge : be it physical, moral, social or existential, the artist does not stop at exposing it, identifying it, or denouncing it; he wants to tame it—still better, to transfigure it : the repulsive becomes attractive, the unlivable livable, the revolting appealing, the injury a blessing." — Michel Ribon, L'Archipel de la laideur: Essai sur l'art et la laideur (Paris : Kimé, 1995)

  

 

Wild Card
Oil, on canvas, 22" x 30 "

random moments of disconcerted daily life
not in sequence
so not how you think
lifted up, thrown down
placed in a row.

 

Psyche
Oil on paper, 22" x 28"

Remnant
Oil on paper, 26" x 36"

FAUVE
The group takes on the quality of the animal
one day, the desert winds blow in
a fierce angry mob
prod them with a stick they growl
tempt them with a bone they hunger
a veneer of glass shields us
the quicksand sucking up unwary travelers