Since 2005, my work has been bubbles, cells and other organic forms built of animation style basic shapes. Some of the pieces have a single complicated object floating in space, while others the images is cluttered with little to no background and lacking a horizon line gives it a resemblance to a microscopic slide. They tend to have a slight background, either painterly or naturally by the wood support. The work is obsessed with detail and repetition with the over use of simple shapes and the addictive scribblish inking style. The repetition of loose pen strokes adds to the similarity to Dr. Seuss. The detailing and the twisted overlapping give the work a slight hint of M.C. Escheur. The animated aspect of dealing with time, growth and the movement gives it a humors cartoonish feel. It also contains the large simple shapes imitating Looney Toons. The newer work contains a pallet of flash colors reminiscent of 80’s and 90’s video games and cartoons.
The subject matter has a sense of being both Microscopic and Macroscopic. The imagery is deals with the over pollution of humanity and the decay of our own biosphere, relating the microscopic and oceanic forms to the solar system and galaxies. The earliest piece to exemplify these concepts is “Evolution of man†where our solar system is intertwined with cellular diffusion. It’s a mythological or biblical story of the creation of man relating the birth of a cell and deployment of a cell to that of the birth and development of man and eventual demise of man. The second piece to show these concepts was the “Collaboration†between Chris Mancoso, who has a surrealist style and my microscopic bio-abstraction. We push each other’s concepts and complicity personal styles. The composition is similar to that of a Trapper Keeper with exaggerated perspective on the worm that is crawling threw the clutter of planets resembling natural and biomorphic planets. The piece ends with man being born from worm and he is unable to have a grasp on the earth. The latest piece “The Human Colony†places the earth as a cell with colonies of coral living on the exterior relating. The world is splitting like that of a cell dividing. Relating this division to the spilt of cultures in our modern world. It also has a slight religious tone to it with the use of wood panels with open doors and the use of gold.
