The Fallen CrownFrom the Artist I have been working on a series of six paintings of large format (6' x 9') and from this work emerged my print. The process was direct on the first Mylar. I started drawing automatically and found my image as I drew. I could say that most, if not all, of my work emerges in this manner. To contrive something and try to put it on paper or canvas does not work for me. I respond to the marks and then find the image and meaning. It may seem

The background of the painting is like the installation or stage and the stroke of painting is like my live performance

cause and effect

It is about space

As with his mosaics

should experience and study this work firsthand

By doing portraits and creating patterns denoting elements that describe cultural contexts

and redolent of our long history of repression of the human spirit by politics and ideology

It's associated with Jamaica and other islands in the Caribbean

I went to Italy to view the art of the Renaissance

if you will–for the myriad possibilities that give rise to the surface of things

Red is different from pink

All too often