Artist Statement

How we see and what we see is the compelling force for my practice. My inspiration is nature and landscape in the broadest sense. Using reference photos captured by technology, I explore detail and precision inaccessible to our unaided eye. The prolonged examination of edge, shape, light, and color fulfills an inner desire for order. Removed from contexts of time, space, and location, these visual fragments become microcosms of a world too large to comprehend. The paintings capture fleeting moments in the rapidly changing environment of our planet.

My interest in perception started in the back office of my dad’s optometry practice. Eye charts, color tests, and lenses became vehicles for examining and manipulating the world around me. As a child, I experienced sensory overload and tics associated with Tourette’s Syndrome. My internal world was rich with storytelling and imagination but also included a fixation on my location in the space-time continuum. This peripheral perspective, of being in the world but seeing it from a different point of view, continues to inform my work.

Part of my practice is the act of sorting. I scroll through numerous images to find specific ones that resonate intuitively. The process of tedious rendering is an avenue for contemplation – a desire to embed this singular instant in my psyche. The stringing together of these isolated intervals forms an intentional narrative of the world around me. With paint and pencils, I look for connection and record tiny slivers of the hidden universe.