My work evolves from the connection between patterns in nature and patterns in human behavior. The most recent cycle of paintings incorporate stock market charts as reflections of these patterns. There is a certain sense of irony in stretching one's resources to make art within a city that functions as a world center for money. My paintings evolved from exploring this relationship. I began an in-depth study of the world of finance and found a direct correlation to my earlier works, which are based on the movement of crowds. The patterns found in stock market charts are a reflection of the manic behavior of crowds, visualizing the swings of calm and sudden fury on the stock market floor. While working in the studio of Caio Fonseca, I was introduced to the ideas of Joaquin Torres Garcia's constructivism , and became interested in the aspects of his theory that encourage artists to use images from the culture around them to create their own personal language. I'm doing my own adaptation of these concepts as a participant amateur stock trader. Each painting is based on patterns of the specific stocks I’m currently trading. With the countless market participants as a back drop, they are constructions of my own navigation and understanding of these huge psychological tides. The painting surfaces are smooth, and luminous, with just enough brush work to provide a sense of natural movement. The paintings vary in size,from a few inches to several feet, further accentuating the dramatic shifts of these patterns. These paintings are my way of exploring the roles of risk within an uncertain career, of making my own iconographic sense of things; and of allowing an ambiguous act to develop its own resolve. Tom Moran, 2007 "Even though the artist pays attention to his surroundings, he is not ruled by them, because he remains in the abstract. He will only see geometry, rhythm, and plastic qualities. The real objects, transfigured, will be able to live in that world" -- Joaquin Torres Garcia       © 2007 Tom Moran