— Residency 108

2018 Germantown Upstate New York

I came to Residency 108 with the express purpose of reading and listening to the landscape to make paintings and mono-print drawings informed by the charged natural surrounds, continuing a refinement of a visual shorthand that echoes my internal logic. This process relies on a reverence for tacit knowledge, a tactile intuition, learning through obsessive making before thinking.

Furthermore, this approach abandons the idea of a supposedly realist picturesque depiction of the world, celebrating instead the indeterminate nature of a place filtered by the imperfect mind. The forceps of our perception crushes what it sees—to observe is to destroy—final presence vanquishes legibility. The unbound world is fluid and dangerous. I want to feel a place where nothing is known because nothing is shaped in advance by words. Where there are no things there is only a stream of manifold, nameless sensations shifting in fullness. Memory Exposure is then not the precise documentation of a place but the absences of debris left over, an uncertain question, a pause, the mere impression grazed by the mind in that space, a rupture between word and thing.