I think of drawing and painting as acts of dialogue, questioning, exploring.
I don’t want to try to make some preconceived thing happen or try to create a beautiful image. (though the temptation is rarely absent). Rather, I want to see what will happen if… if i follow my questions and my instincts where they lead. it is like being on the trail of something.
I often think of the cave painters of Lascaux and Chauvet– 10, 20, 30,000 years ago.
I want my art to be like their art, not “art” at all– like the art that was done before we had the name, like the art children do before they know better. I want to evoke the presence of this living world rather than make a picture of it.
I try to paint people as if they were landscapes, and landscapes as if they were people.