Confused by everything, Steve uses art to slow down and process his life. It doesn’t help much, but it’s something to do. After painting, Steve is often more confused than when he started.
As a practicing architect, he usually gravitates toward urban themes related to the relationship between people and the built environment. Steve wonders if we exist how we do because we want to or because we have to, and explores the notion that we have become subservient to our own activities. These themes interact directly with Steve’s daily life, where they mingle and percolate among a swirling menagerie of wandering thoughts and ideas to be distilled down into a singular profound inkling, a shimmering golden droplet perched loosely on the razor edge of his conscious thought: “huh?”
Steve’s paintings are mostly done in acrylic on canvas or panel. When working abroad, he uses heavy paper that can be broken down, easily moved, and mounted to panels later. An evolving body of work, Steve tries to tie the formal composition of pictorial space and time into these themes where they begin to set up opportunities for narrative interpretations of our constructed lives.
