Traditional, formal portraiture is a genre of its own. People once had the leisure time to sit and be painted. Today, life has a dynamic quality. My desire is to paint this beautiful energy more through body gesture than facial expression. Surprisingly, people are readily recognizable in this dimension.
Photographs are the documentary or the prose.
I try to transcend that record of a moment, in the poetry of the timeless. Even though the facial gestures are altered by time, I hope the moment can be relived through my art. My interest is not in smiling faces. I cannot orchestrate this occurrence. It takes patience, observation, and over one hundred photos.