Tristan Tzara, Or the Dada movement, didn't believe In progress either, or genius for that matter. My work is so much related to being a craft and the Dadaists dispensed with that kind of practice. Postmodernism mimics craft. My work is grounded in the craft of painting. Other technologies don't allow for this direct relationship.
Painting is a way of mediating.
Looking in retrospect at my work I can see that it may be about a number of things, but those things are not the totality of my work and do not comprise the entirety of what the work is. So your work makes gestures towards larger grander themes. That isn't the whole meaning of making the work for me. Let's talk about the themes that can be identified In your work. The darkness comes more from my disposition as a person.