When the artist creates a mimetic image it is agreed by both the artist and the audience that a game of pretend has begun. In fact, I want the viewer to engage in the act of viewing while maintaining a constant tension between the object of the fantasy and the empirical reality where a painting, but no apple is present. It is from such a dialectic, a tension between what is dreamed and what is, that meaning is created. This is the dusty area from where structures of meaning can emerge into the light of vision. It is not by oneself that meaning is created and sustained.
Tradition is the vessel that contains sustained meaning.
Realities can be created in isolation, but it is tradition that sustains realities. More than that, I would like my work to add to that tradition. For this reason I present an older signage along with new systems of signs. There is the exoteric meaning of the works that emanates from the visualization of the images both traditional and novel. Finally, there is the obligatory meaning which comes from the virtue of striving to reach the real, and inner meaning.