This year I spent the summer in Budapest at a painting residency. I've been working on a series based on Fascist aesthetic design. I'm opposing it with figures from marginalized groups and heroic comic book imagery and text.

Most of this work is from a collaboration with Bandelion Dance/Theatre group. Performances were staged and documented and used for a series of paintings. We explored themes of gender, body, disability, and the boundaries between disciplines. There are also many portraits from my ongoing series of experiments in the tension between realism and abstraction.

Portraits exploring perceptions of beauty in contemporary culture. Also paintings exploring transitions across boundaries between levels of reality and fiction.

My main idea for this series was to examinethe effect of our contemporary lack of historical understanding. The repressed content of the past erupts into the present in distorted cultural forms in a similar way to our own personal hidden past manifesting in neurotic behavior.

This series was begun as an critique of the split in western thought between the Mind and the Body. I used Descartes as the prime example of Dualism and included themes of decay and isolation form the natural world. I used bits of text from Descartes work and interiors from abandoned mental hospitals.