I try to paint at the edge of my skill. Blending moments of past experience with new ideas and innovations. I keep the end goal in mind, without limiting possibilities. In my experience it's good to take a step back and listen. Sometimes a painting will show you what it wants to be. Something unexpected. I don't want to drown out those possibilities.

How a canvas edge meets wood, or how the front of the canvas relates to the side, gives me a lot to consider. Importantly how the painted object itself meets the art industry. The wall. White walls are an implied vacuum for art. A backdrop or way of contextualizing the work. The wall is a network which ties the painting to a larger, public conversation. The final moment of my control is found at that edge. Then it's public. It speaks and takes on a life of it's own. I try not to think of a painting as done when I'm through painting. If anything that's when it begins.