Using words in paintings is difficult in many ways. They are seen as performing together with images, or even inspite of images, the poetry of images and the indescribable worlds they create in ourselves. These worlds are private worlds, with languages that are absolutley private. I want the viewer to be able to negotiate in the world I am creating, and me theirs. A common language that is iterable goes towards this...

“…the discursive responsibility we have as speakers and writers; the responsibility we must assume for our use of language, for how we echo others and contribute ( or fail to contribute ) to their resignifications, for starting new lines of resignification and for continuing or discontinuing existing lines.” Medina 2005 p.166