The idea is to capture a direct line to some fundamental aspect of the way the world is organized, and to do so without fuss. I have the feeling that the paint and brush, with their wild fluidity, are conduits to a fundamental current that runs through my subjects. But there is some blurring because I can’t tell whether that current is in the subject or in me—perhaps it’s the common thread that runs through both. My works are looking outward to the world and also inward to the experience of being in the world; to the upsurge of consciousness—of perception—that orients us in the world.