So What is This About?

When I find a content-rich object, I use its basic characteristics and significance to inspire imagery that unites technology, nature, and spirituality. By painting a combination of human figures, conceptual images, and graffiti-derived wildstyle lettering, I augment the object’s natural flow, and ultimately enhance its fundamental character.

I prefer found objects such as circuit boards, machined metal "high-tech trash" but my process is versatile and can be applied to traditional canvases and art surfaces. An engineering vocation exposes me to an endless array of fascinating stuff that frequently sits dormant in R&D labs, machine shops, and quality control reject bins. I turn these objects into canvasses for acrylic, oil, and spray paint.

High-tech objects have an inherent attraction to them, a sense of value and purpose. By painting these discarded once-valued items, I draw attention to our system of waste. I also show the humor of mankind’s worship of technology and never-ending attempt to become God-like through science. I honor perfect structures and geometric patterns that occur in nature, which all man-made objects emulate. I use these themes to complement the object’s basic character.

While working with the object or surface, its natural essence, resonant frequency, center of gravity, and lines of balance always emerge. Painted figures create an engaging starting point for fluid flow within the image. Traditional methods of color selection, imagery, and composition, as well as wildstyle lettering direct flow within the image. Wildstyle can be amazingly fluid, and it contains the additional element of ciphered text, which I use to strengthen the base concept.

When made properly, the end result is a creative bridge over the awkward chasm between art and science, and an enhanced version of the original object.

WILDSTYLE: modern graffiti-derived lettering which started as simple single stroke ‘tags’, progressed to two-dimensional graphic letters, and advanced to completely three-dimensional, interlocking, intertwining, geometric, flowing shape systems which hold a cohesive set of letters at their foundation.

Art Crimes (graffiti.org) defines WILDSTYLE as:
A complicated construction of interlocking letters. A hard style that consists of lots of arrows and connections. Wildstyle is considered one of the hardest styles to master and pieces done in wildstyle are often completely undecipherable to non-writers.