“In a still life nothing acts, nothing gesticulates, nothing does anything else than to be.”
“Without this this deep-seated, quiet, and immobile energy […] nothing in the world would move, nothing would operate, nothing would exist.”
-Etienne Gilson, Painting and Reality
Despite the momentous upheavals of our time and the pervasive sense that the future will either be revolutionized by experts or detonated by madmen, our daily lives are full of moments of stillness, of objects that remain where we place them at night and are there in the morning when we awake. I created these paintings as a way to contemplate and share that stillness that is at the core of reality.
Universe
12×9″
Oil on canvas
Chestnut, Chalk, and Rag
12×9″
Oil on canvas
Empire
9×12″
Oil on canvas
Spanish Clementine
9×12″
Oil on canvas
Everyman Summa
9″x12″
Oil on canvas
The History of American Philosophy (Unfinished)
12×15″
Oil on canvas
Hawthorne and the Sea
9×12″
Oil on canvas
Sacrifice
9×12″
Oil on canvas
Benedict’s Rule
9×12″
Oil on canvas
Persistent Objects
12×15″
Oil on panel
Liber Pontificalis
10×10”
Oil on canvas