Connecting visuals to something visceral

Artist Statement:

I’m interested in representing spaces of overwhelming beauty. The more embodiment and physicality I can have in the making of my art, the better. I want an image with movement, optical sizzle, and a tangible energy of a super nature moment. I define a super nature moment as: a time when the veil of separation from nature is lifted, causing a visual experience to be felt. This is a feeling of wonder at the complexity of nature, while maintaining a sense of wholeness or oneness. In this tension of contrasting elements enmeshed in one scene, is where I find that vibrating, prolonged feeling of awe, which I can best communicate through painting.

I usually experience these moments during transition times, and where different states of matter and quality of materials meet. For example, the feeling of swimming during golden hour. Where peak aesthetics and physical sensations meet. The temporary brilliance of  warm light catching air, causing a thickness that floats above warped reflections of golden green trees that envelope a swimming body. Water surface tension acting so many ways at once, I find this confluence of states to be a paradoxical, supersaturated scene. The goal is to transport the viewer to the sensations of full absorption and temporal urgency we experience in nature.