Meat
The meat paintings are, understandably, the pieces that elicit the most questions. The first is usually, "Why meat?" The glib answer is "you can only paint so many pears." The longer answer is that the meat is beautiful and mildly evocative. We have a much more complicated reaction to a hunk of lamb than we do to pepper. The meat is the stuff of us. We are, after all, meat. The smell shifts while I work. The color changes. I have vivid memories of meals with family and friends built around meat. It's beautiful, desirable, and it's unclean.
As with all of the work on this site, this portfolio is not intended to be a complete catalog. 
