Pele Morta

         Pele Morta means Dead Skin in Portuguese. It can be found in between keys of an old computer keyboard, telephones; in anything with crevices that was heavily used and eventually neglected.
      I see the constant cycle of creation and destruction in which humanity finds itself as fascinating. Throughout History, we have desperately tried to understand and explain our physical and ontological reality. I see in this drive a search for a sense of safety that is naturally denied to us, and in our code there is an innate fear that propels us. These paintings are studies of these fleeting acts of creation, in all its glory and waste, and the beauty and mystery of the objects we leave behind. I find the intensity, purpose and ambition encapsulated in these objects and scenes to be touching, even when I find the product of said ambition to be damaging.