Bittersweet is a word and idea I cyclically return to.
Showings
Shown at Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago, IL
Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle
Louisiana Tech, Ruston, LA
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FigurativeI think of my best work as creating an opening or clearing a path for what is heartfelt and poetic in the ordinary to come through. Yet, I know too that latent within the ordinary are bittersweet and paradoxical feelings that betray these simple sentiments. Sweetness and pleasure felt in seeing or recalling certain objects or experiences often intermingle with feelings of sadness, loss and regret.