The Little Death

Although I don't have any images to account for this new idea, I can try to explain through words. The notion of translating my experience as a human onto the picture plane is where my work has been directed for the last year. Utilizing the self portrait is the most effective way to explain these events and the energies that arise during the painting process. I want to take the idea of unraveling that experience, but break it apart into specific moments, rather than summing up an event into one image. I video taped myself during a specific experience (the little death), black and white, then took stills from that tape and am making paintings from those images. I have never worked from photographs before, and it's a very strange unknown land. Keeping the immediacy of a "moment in time" is proving difficult to translate as an alive painting that is changing and not static.

I am also using a very specific limited palette in hopes to recreate the simplicity that a black and white image holds. Wish me luck!