A future called perchance
oil on canvas
44" x 24"

In pursuit of steam
oil on canvas
46" x 14"

Without focus, recurring dream 1- 10
(top to bottom, right to left)
5" x 5" each
oil on wood panel

Babel
oil and resin on gator board
17" x 19"

 This Painting was part of a 50 person art collaboration dreamed up by Troy Gua and shown at
Monarch Contemporary in Seattle WA. The following is an excerpt from his statement for the show:

"…With 'Meet Greet Rinse Repeat', I am asking fellow artists to communicate with me in our respective unique visual languages. I begin the conversation with a hand cut, futuristic and highly graphic character of invented symbolism. I hand this off to my collaborator for a reply, who does with it what he/she will, infusing the character with whatever creative spirit they deem fit. The collaborator then passes his/her visual response back to me for the conclusion of the interchange, which will include, in many cases, a resin coating to seal our work together.”

 For my contribution, I decided to work with one of the most widely known stories pertaining to communication, the biblical story of Babel. To compound the effect of Babel as a concept I utilized text in the imagery, written in a replacement cipher, with the name of the piece as the key. As a clue to the meaning of the apparent gibberish, upon the sleeve of the figure is painted, “G 11:4”.