A profound thing happens when an act of aggression is performed with intent and purpose. These works are quite literally attacked by myself and a various array of tools, materials and by nature itself. Allowing the work to be “destroyed” exhibits elements of vigilance, resistance, resiliency and beauty. I find balance and peace in my process and what emerges tends to be the relic of those actions, care and intent. This is a collection of work exploring that violent nature of painting. Pierce, lacerate, layer and assemblage on the two-dimensional support to figure the void as a space of liberating potentiality.  Experimenting vigorously, venturing into methods that seem against the medium and process of painting. The most noteworthy of which are the violent actions and physicality forced onto the surface as I seek to transcend the two-dimensional plane of the canvas.

Creativity can take on many roles, while often it fulfills the craving for aesthetic desires it can also demand change. Auto-Destructive Art seeks to remind people of the horrors which they are perpetuating and is a warning to reverse course. From the embers of destruction the medium emerges reborn, a complex power referencing the experience of living in a world perched on the brink of self-annihilation. The physical expression of these works is the manifestation of my emotional state when pondering the juxtaposition of positive innovation and perpetual regression of mankind. 

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