Using the motif of a liquid or goopy mass as a formal and thematic basis, my current painting is an exploration of the border between abstraction and figuration.

The mass itself is a form that is psychologically loaded, often highly abject, but I present it in the context of painterly abstraction. The all over fields of Abstract Expressionism and Color field painting, as well as its frequent Pop and Post-modern resampling of those traditions as a symbol of itself, are intertwined with the cultural and psychological associations of the subject the mass invokes. The figurative and linguistics forms within, above, and around the mass add further narrative and semantic elements in relation to the content.