I updated my website today. After much consideration, I decided to take down my old work from the site, and simplify my portfolio to include just my most recent works. I feel more focused than ever in my work, and my website was just not reflecting that. Presenting my new work has also made me reconsider whether the works I have been doing are diptychs, or whether the individual paintings are strong enough to stand on their own. I have decided that they should go it alone. As I've been composing new paintings these past couple weeks, I'm finding this approach makes much more sense. I could compose an entire exhibition's worth of paintings based on one image - it doesn't mean that they belong together, that the individual works are somehow incomplete or insufficient without the grouping. To the contrary, I think it's more interesting to try to be more economical. Sometimes more is just more, not better. In some cases, it may make sense to treat a pair or multiple as one painting, but I think the multiple fragments in my work sufficiently suggest the notion of multiplicity and metamorphosis that interests me.

So I feel cleansed. Leaner. And ready to rebuild.