Both Sides

a split screen of yellow and blue is overlaid with chaotic abstract and narrative, anxious figures.

Blue and yellow wallpaper patterns provide a backdrop to a semi-abtract painting that includes two profiles and two sides of shared body content - flowers, a skirt, some birch bark, and howling heads.

A northern pike is held up by a strange structure that may be a tree. On the left side, which is yellow, a tree is on fire. On the right side, which is blue, the tree is still green. An egg like those in renaissance paintings is placed near the top between the colors, a symbol of birth

A painting with two sides: one has a birch tree on fire in front of textured blue containers; the second side is a pale celadon cream color with a tornado shape in the foreground. THe sides are split by a vertical narrative of a mountain, some flowers, a fish, some rope, some drips. The colors are primarily celadon, cream, yellow, and shock of red in teh flowers.

A strange animal-flower bouquet rises out of a blue container, to meet a sky that is half blue, half pink. There are trees like lollipops with birch trunks

“Both Sides” paintings are intuitive riffs on a life filled with contradiction between what we know and what we wish – aspiring to a viable story that accommodates both realities.

Works on this page are created in a variety of techniques, including drawing, scraping, sanding, and – painting with a brush. Intended as a kind of “anti-AI” in that the content and techniques are not predictive, the paintings are best viewed in human space.

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