Craftsman House @ Reserve Ames, Los Angeles

Craftsman House @ Reserve Ames, Los Angeles.

I create site-specific painting installations that examine painting’s constituent elements: paint (color, luminosity, translucency and texture) and support within a system of deconstruction, recontextualisation and intervention of a ramshackle shed in a backyard of a gracious Craftsman house in Los Angeles. These painting installations are provisional, transitional and temporal, while thriving within a given set of variables of the shed such as the 1:1 ratio of the floor space, cracks and gaps on the floor; humidity at 62 degrees temperature; weathered wood surfaces; delicately scrawled notations on the board; part numbers and maintenance for American cars from yesteryear; 8 feet tall walls; glass window with marking overlooking Los Angeles sunset; bird’s feather; and discarded construction and building materials.

It is the search for an illumination that rests between the space of the interiority of my mind, the materials I use and the physical condition of the space I am in that drive me to paint and to create these installations. This light is elusive and amorphous, always beyond reach. It is an illumination that lives in and between paint, people, objects, situations and nature that I consolidate in my painting installations.