Possibility is, for my own work, what holds my interest in a lasting way. 'Becoming' rather than 'being'. There is a moment when nothing just begins to coalesce into something. There is just enough information for suggestion but not enough for definition. I shift between a desire to allow the paint to be many things at once in its openness and allusiveness and the sometimes irresistible pressure to define, render, and shut away the paint into a closed form. My paintings and drawings flow from an improvisation of marks and thoughts both positive and negative. Often my work will begin by making any randomish but interesting mark which will usually prompt an immediate retaliatory mark to negate the first. The two, in opposition, together become a third mark which may prompt a fourth. I find myself constantly asserting and denying with equal belief because what I seek is this instantaneous opposition, totality and annihilation. Within this shifting field arises a tension of forms opposed by spaces, intentions versus questions. I have never been satisfied with work resulting from prearranged ideas. The works I believe in most are those which seem to have come about without my intervention. The painting tries to become and I try to recede.