Nathan's paintings are bodies in perpetual flux, expanding and decaying daily. He works on multiple different paintings on a daily basis, keeping them within his studio for the course of years. Throughout their time in the studio these pieces go through a continual process of adding new materials and then subsequently trimming the fat. Nathan uses a process of scraping, sanding, and even taking a knife to excise old layers.

Materials such as concrete, dog hair, and nails are mixed with Nathan’s paint to create a basis for the body. This serves to create a tension between the organic and the synthetic, flesh and foreign object. These paintings are born through their violent creation. This process of addition and subtraction is a painful process where the current painting has to be repeatedly rejected and lost in the search for the final body. Old layers must be actively destroyed and repurposed to bring it to its conclusion. In the same way that our bodies are constantly being destroyed and reformed into a new one, these paintings serve the same purpose as they are being worked on. Thus this process of creation lends itself to a unique shape, a body molded through daily decisions over the course of years to become a being forged by the struggle between natural decay and the human urge to restore balance.