Welcome To The Art Lab

I first started working with epoxy resin while working with Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) a migratory colonial waterbird that nests along the barrier islands on the south shore of Long Island. I needed the bird decoys to encourage the Skimmers to nest in a particular area one nesting season.

The decoys themselves, however, were never supposed to be a work of art. They did have to look real enough to fool an actual Black Skimmer. Preferably one looking to mate. But they were not art.

I created clay models, made silicone molds, and cast the decoys in epoxy resin. They worked like a charm.

It was during this process that I began to appreciate the possibilities that resin held. It can be sculpted, poured, and painted. The various resins each with its own properties, some thin like water, others thick like putty.

Then there is the way it interacts with chemicals like alcohol or chemical reactions like fire. I use these chemicals and chemical reactions to manipulate the epoxy to create psychedelic images and designs. I often incorporate other media such as dyes, inks, paints, micas, glass, acetate and other miscellaneous objects into the images. Sometimes to provide extra texture, depth, or to alter the way light reacts with the piece.

It's a little “mad scientist” meets “crazy artist” …(though one could argue they are one and the same).

My images are organic, abstract, and can feel vast in scope. I try to balance the unknowable with the familiar. Usually through simple geometric shapes. Giving the viewer something to hold on to. Guiding the observer towards an introspective resolution of the chaos before them. Helping them to evolve their own consciousness in the process and come into tune with the natural rhythms that surround us.

We are natural things after all. Completely integrated with our Earthly host. Adrift in the infinite. Floating on a pale blue dot across the cosmic sea.

Here we are not immortal or permanent.

We are a fleeting moment, gifted with the ability to bear conscious witness. To experience reality in all its wondrous, strange, and frighteningly beautiful incarnations.

At least, that is what I see. Art is subjective