My painting explores the gap between representation and mimesis. Making images of living things is a project with failure written into its code, but it seems to be written into our coding as human beings, too. From the official portrait painting to the intense, melancholy concentration of remembering the details of a moment in the past, we 'see' in images.
A friend of mine's mother had a budgie, a male one, and when she had friends around and they'd had a few drinks, she'd take it out of its cage and say 'show us you trick, Joey'. It would hop onto her finger and pleasure itself.
