MONOCHROME

The inspiration for my new series came from feelings that surrounded past memories. You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind. They linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped black and white, leaping behind trees as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you catch a glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Waldo forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know. Always presenting itself in the same two tones.

Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome tones just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom from those memories that haunt me.