I am a painter seduced by animation--the naive desire to bring my images to life. When I began I felt like an artistic Dr. Frankenstein, probing inside the moments that give us the illusion of time. I felt I had stumbled into a some treasure trove of forbidden knowledge, hidden just under the surface of life. A painter looks for a perfect moment, but now I was giving that moment a past and future, a beginning and an end. So in giving it a life I was also giving it a death. I realized after several years of animating my 'moments' that this mortality, which gives life its preciousness, was actually the subject of my work, and that instead of being fragments my animations were actually parts of a narrative whole, like the chapters of a novel or songs in a cycle.
