When asked what drives my work, the answer is as simple and unclear as “the immense weight of all that has occurred and been forgotten”. Not only is this sense pursued in the variety of my paintings but I feel, is dependent upon that variety. By exhibiting a wide breadth of subject and material I strive to highlight the constant element amidst the difference; the continuity within the rupture.

     The subject of color-field paintings naturally connects to my tendency to perceive wonder or view the “sublime” within the everyday or mundane elements of life. The fleeting moments, the captivating nuances of unintentionally affected surfaces, and the shifts of light throughout the day all hold the same potential for inspiring a sense of the grandness of existence. This pursuit is performed in methods ranging from working with found material and painterly abstraction to trompe l'oiel depictions of subject and realist still-life painting.

        Within this range of subjects, the human tendency of viewing based upon assumption and our desire to project or discern images is highlighted and seeks to draw the viewer into a more active role of listening to the “conversations” of the works. Each work shifts in role of subject or context as it speaks with the works around it. As individual pieces are grouped and regrouped, the associations and effects upon perception are altered. Then, amidst the change of subject and material, a constant, yet ambiguous, sense emerges. Continuity may be perceived as a result of variety.