“The precursor shapes a new civilization; the rebel defines the edges of a disintegrated one."
As human beings build civilizations on top of others, we constantly see space as it changes over time. I am combining this continually changing space with a moment caught in time - the world of “now” that is formed by humans - a crisscross of sketches, erasures, strokes, stills, and forms, buildings, roads, forests, parks, and cities, “where the impress of the future is received by the past.”
My work uses architecture and architectural history to show the coexistence of past, present and future. Each piece is a description on paper and canvas of how the human “moment just past is extinguished forever, save for the things made during it.” I am exploring the sequence of change through our cities and their histories, combining the unharmed and unchanged with the destroyed, rebuilt and “new.”
This is my reflection of changing the space of ‘now’ and ‘then,’ producing confusion and sense; confusion of depth and space, time, period and location; logic of placement, stillness, and structure. I use the tension between the variance in structure that causes unique disorder of space and continual presence and absence of depth.
Choosing contradicting human cities, countries, and towns (Italian hill-towns and New York City) to explore this obvious connection between space and time and the human relation to both, provides each work with a distinct aesthetic appeal and life. Formally my series’ deal with four main conflicts; silence vs. vibration, space vs. line/fill, unconscious vs. thought, and organic vs. structure. These conflicts leave the viewer seeing a new kind of space. Not the space within which there are three dimensions and time plays the role of the fourth dimension, but the combination of space and time into a single manifold represented by the visual study (my paintings) of human influence on our own environments.