My imagination as well as the world and its observed forms are the fundamental building blocks of my work. That is, I try to achieve in my work the synthesis of two-dimensional and three-dimensional space that I observe and admire in the work of my predecessors. Fundamentally, the realizing of this fusion, of collapsed space onto a planar surface, is the result of a translation of light and the forms it gives volume into the pictorial language called color. And color really does act like a language in all of its nuanced tone, modulation, and susceptibility to the subjectivity of other people – color is a universal form of communication that achieves a coherence only in one parts relevance to another upon the picture plane and how all parts work as a whole. Color, in this mode of thinking, surpasses its descriptive hue as such and becomes more than itself – it ceases to be bound to its worldly existence and is elevated into to realm of the symbolic, the allegory, and myth. This kind of transfiguration of the world, of allowing the real interact and coexist with the realm of imagination, is something I think we are all able to do while very young and gradually allow to fade. So, although I would classify my own work as striving to achieve a mythological space I would not want the association to be one of imagery inasmuch as the way in which color can create the visual paradox within the viewers minds-eye of another alerted reality of real felt relationships that exists on an altogether different dimensional plane. My work is not about the beauty of objects of the past or present and scenic places one can go to but rather a theater of the mind and the music of line and color.

If you are interested, please contact me about the availability of specific work. Best,
Dan