| Description: Watercolor paintings have always provided me with the immediacy of drawing directly with paint. I initially began this cycle of 100 watercolor paintings after viewing William Turner’s watercolor landscape sketches at the Turner Museum in London. My concern with image making, however, did not stop with landscape. Expressionism itself is not always the main issue in my work either, as this group of work shows. Figuration has been for me a method of showing my thoughts and observations concretely. As time went by and I continued working, events happened in my life, such as the loss of my neighborhood and home, indeed, way of life, which altered the reason for which I was making images. Painting them was a way for me to lay bare the fundamental reasons and dangers that we face in this world.
This group is both meditation and direct observation of the world as it is, and was created over a period of time. Behind my preferred bright surfaces, lays the depth of my observations. |
