8″ x 24″
Oil on Panel

“That was the day I invented time travel. I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink. And when I came to I had a revelation, a picture, a picture in my head, a picture of this. (motions to the flux capacitor.)This is what makes time travel possible. The flux capacitor.”   -Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown in “Back to the Future”

Slipping, falling, and traveling through time.  For whatever reason, that’s what it always comes back to in my work… perhaps because I watched “Back to the Future” over and over again throughout my formative years?   My friend Stefanie told me not to tell anybody this, but I used to ask my mom to connect my pigtails together in the middle to make my hair look like a flux capacitor.  I guess Stefanie worries that other people might be jealous.

I finished this painting on December 31, the last painting of 2012.  I have spent a lot of this year hurling huge pots of pasta onto the wall. To see what sticks, I mean.  I have painted landscapes with retirees, turned spilled paint into monsters, and corralled cups out of lumps of clay.  With this painting, I am starting to understand where my work is going next, and to see how my current work connects with the work I was doing in the past.  And so just in time, the old year’s work got some resolution, and the work of the New Year begins.