Pages: Platonic Solid Self Portraiture Series written statement

Pages is an oil pastel, oil stick, and oil paint, painted from life, self-portraiture, and still life series. The pieces total nine 24” x 48” canvases with yarn. The series explores the relationship between painting, seeing, and life—using a self-portraiture mirror and a set of wood platonic solids—to further my artistic goal of becoming a cosmic connector. 

The series explores the relationship between the nonliving geometric shapes of platonic solids and my living breathing face. The platonic solids open a better understanding of my own faces for artistic modeling exploring the bizarre complex richness of what is and what we perceive.  

Each piece employs a division at the center which makes two 24” x 24” squares evoking how books are bound and split open to be read, hence the rectangle format and two sides. I’m fascinated by how books are vehicles for knowledge. The canvas is treated as an artist's open sketchbook to display the beauty and wonder often secret from finalized works of art. 

The series is a blank ground for personal ideas, a place for bold raw mistakes and perfections that inform and document the next creative act. Pages is a vehicle for personal and universal knowledge and experimentation – a database of information – a document of my progressing ways of seeing.