whether it's canvas tightly wrapped around a shaped singular support or a cobbled together piecemeal assortment of homasote scraps, bits of plywood and discarded frames, the first 'material' that informs any and all aesthetic decisions in recent work is the object itself...its thingness...the facade upon which additional materials are added. any and everything might enter this painting arena...paint, staples, plastic, fabric, plaster, etc., with each unique material or found object imbued with its own conceptually charged energy. but it's the transformational totality of a thing's thingness that really excites me and keeps the fires burning.