My painted animals stare, gaze, intrude upon the viewer's space capturing moods; perhaps fear, terror, curiosity, humor. Their expressions,anthropomorphic in nature, arrest our attention. An untamed "animal" side to our own natures is evoked.
In my paintings I am testing an extreme of human vulnerability by placing a mirror between us and the rest of the animal kingdom. Are we aware of the human/animal interdependance on this planet? Are their expression-sour own and vice versa? The focus of each painting is the animal faces, and these are placed on the most frontal plane of the painting to force confrontation and to create identification and/or empathy between the art audience and these creatures.
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