I very much enjoy painting, but don't consider myself a painter because thematically and conceptually [with the exception of a few works] I've largely kept up with it in parallele with the rest of my practice. As a committed dilettante, I use it to work out ideas and stay flexible. I guess it's kind of like how I carry a largely unused pocket sketchbook around everywhere, I use it to remind myself that I'm a producer of not just ideas, but things; and that there needs to be some sort of evidence or reside or medium through which to communicate. And, admittedly, I'm probably as seduced by objects as anyone else.

~2008

an old painting studio [from 2006]

These pulley paintings (above) allude to the dynamics of relationships. How the string hangs and acts on the pully represents the extent or nature to whitch a relationship has changed, stretched, twisted or tangled (dimensions are approximate)