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Contradiction is a concept
Contradiction is a concept that forms the foundation of my figurative art.  The work is composed of life-size, carefully choreographed bodies on top of a background purged of contextualizing information.  Digital photomontages are used as preliminary sketches, so the finished piece retains the appearance of an assemblage. This isolates the figures from each other at the same time their bodies are functioning as a whole.  Their individuality is not erased, but confused and transformed.  The figures in my work are simultaneously seductive and repulsive, warm and cool, intimate and distant.   This cohabitation of oppositions keeps me engaged in the pieces that take so many hours of painstaking effort.  I want my work to be beautiful, but I do not want it to be satisfying; There should be something off-kilter in the pieces to keep the viewer wondering.
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