Erin Whitman
"In art, desire returns, but it is, at first, the desire to annul time (to annul desire)..."
--Georges Bataille

A painting is a palimpsest of many moments, layered stroke by stroke. It is an unchanging record of transitory experience. For me, painting has always been a contradiction - an effort to contain time and escape it, to discover truth through illusion, to pursue and relinquish my desires.