I would like to address a common question that I hear over and over again.
Why don't you make "contemporary paintings"?
I'll try to answer this in brief:
As far as we know, man first painted on cliff and cave walls 40,000 years ago. These images were design/pattern oriented without an attempt at the illusion of three dimensions - i.e abstract. Throughout the entire history of painting, man has only attempted to compose within the illusion of three dimensional space for less than 1,000 years cumulatively (that's if you count the Greeks, but we only have stories about their paintings, not actual paintings).
Take 39,000 years of abstraction in one hand and 1,000 years of illusionism in the other and tell me which one has been thoroughly explored.
Or if you prefer: I as an artist am a product of contemporary society. Ergo, my work is contemporary.
