Peekaboo  (2011)

  

The conscious exploration of our own personal cosmic DNA through art

unearths all sorts of seemingly unassociated pieces of ideas.  Making

new work is an archeology of the sub-conscious—it turns up fragments

of broken ceramics and jaw bones, and the scientist receives the gifts

the soil has offered, and pieces them together to discover a "new dinosaur."

During the creation of Peekaboo, pinball machine graphics, imagery

from 1990s action movies, and Henri Rousseau's paintings combined to

reveal themselves to me as this cohesive allegory:

There is an archetypal lone soldier hunched in the palmettos.  There

is lurking violence beyond the horizon, explosions and strife, just

far enough away as to not do any harm, but close enough to keep him

awake all night.  A Tiger deity is lord of this place, somehow

responsible for the effervescence in this, otherwise, placid marsh.  The

soldier senses impending conflict and is forever alert.