Cross Sections
The cross sections represent a different viewpoint; they are paintings from nature, but not nature seen naturally or by the naked eye. In order to see things up close, under microscopes we generally have to slice some section off thereby altering or destroying it in order to examine it. This is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle that all painters who attempt to capture reality learn. The obsessive nature of the paintings reveals something of our desperation for exactitude. The images demand contemplation in a similar way to how scientists examine their subject matter. As the reference material for the work is a cross section of a worm, there is also a phoenix-like aspect to the paintings. The myth of the phoenix, a bird that burns in flame and is reborn anew to live again is similar to folk tales about worms cut in half growing back.