“2 hours before”

The darkness surrounds the paintings as much as the light, but it is the light that lets you enter further. When painting, I feel as though I’m trying to get through slabs of concrete, yet the challenge is satisfying and it keeps me going.

50" x 42" oil, wax, thread and high gloss polymer

That’s probably why there’s this heavy resting moment in each piece of work. The image is tinged with melancholia, although not without a feeling of resolution.

It seems as though when working, I always look at the image as if it were something in the past, something you know only partly of, but I think that the paintings come out with a sense of future as well. The sketches are of a being called an opperatant who is learning about the end of one’s life and the beginning of another.