Statement about Placid Reign
In dream interpretation, rooms of a house symbolize the inner self, while landscapes represent experience. As a painter I explore a landscape saturated in primal memories, with crude expressions of spirituality accompanying me on my nomadic trek. There are ghosts in the ground, and fossils in the air.
In Placid Reign, simplistic forms like paddle boats and make-shift shelter echo a curiously peaceful mind who built and used them. I look out through varying cinematic frames, some from distant observation points, others more intimate encounters. The forms become characters that may take on different identities depending on who is seeing them, and play
different roles in a story that takes place in the past, present or future. The landscapes, like video games without solutions, call for the viewer’s participation to reveal themselves.
In Placid Reign, simplistic forms like paddle boats and make-shift shelter echo a curiously peaceful mind who built and used them. I look out through varying cinematic frames, some from distant observation points, others more intimate encounters. The forms become characters that may take on different identities depending on who is seeing them, and play
different roles in a story that takes place in the past, present or future. The landscapes, like video games without solutions, call for the viewer’s participation to reveal themselves.
