My latest body of work titled Disjointed Reality stemmed out of the need, in November of 2020, to start visiting parts of my past voluntarily, which are represented by different sections of the paintings strips, interlaced onto the surface multiple times, in order to bring together a mixture of understanding and acceptance with what at times has been a very 'disjointed' life since acquiring a Brain Injury Disability from my second concussion in 2004.
This started as a need to create some new work with no money to buy new material and my mind went immediately to a series of paintings I was commissioned to do for the show Mad Men on AMC back in 2013.
As I go through the physical process of creating the paintings my mind either glimpses or I search for a section of a piece and I know that piece and I remember it from my past, when and where I was when I created it. When I choose that strip of painting I am choosing that piece of my past and bringing it into my present yet again for someone's future, someone else's future. So in a way I am creating someone's future environment from my multiple time frames of my history/herstory, my multi layered and very complicated, complex, rich and very textured history. Which is why the painting are the way they are. Because that is the way I am.
I am taking my 'disjointed and complicated and complex past and I am becoming at peace with it, join(ted), joining it all together, cohesively, right now, in this moment.
