Screenshots
There is a violence inherent to making a line. A line cuts. It
segments and fragments form in drawing, writing, and language. My paintings are not only
visual depictions, but they are also unresolved poetic texts. Resolution, in screens, images, and
conflict is a constructed category. I layer paint until an ambiguous tension arises, where there is a
contradiction between the form and tone, subject matter and color. The beauty of this tension lies
in its futility to fully resolve. The images I paint are fragments of time and space, situated within
an evermore fragmented field. Notions of coherence, resolution, peace serve as an ideological
base that frames how images are read and valued, as well as how history is remembered or
forgotten. Painting serves as a formal and conceptual method to question assumptions of seeing,
knowing, and remembering through my own archive of real events.