Paint means seduction, seduction means death: for every hunter, there is a fawn trembling in silent hysteria. Death is slow, yet sudden when it comes. There is his mouth, all anticipation. Here is my neck.

I am a filmmaker as well as a painter/drawer. My love of the cinema, as well as my own experience making films and videos, has had an incredible impact on my paintings and drawings. I begin a body of work in one of two ways. Either my concept is generated from a source or purely out of my imagination. The ultimate goal is for the individual paintings or drawings to come together to form a subjective narrative. One that has specific meaning to me but is open ended enough to allow the viewer to let their imagination run wild.

Each painting becomes a moment within a sequence, as if frames on a film spool. In film, multiple frames make a second of time in the form of moving pictures. In my paintings, I want each piece to function as a grouping of frames or a still from a scene. In this way, the paintings are part of a larger narrative, born of imagination and light. This larger, ever growing narrative cuts to the core of my work.

                                                                                                               — Corinne Halbert