"In the process of painting, I have tried to achieve a sense of compositional unity through repetition, interesting three-dimensional spaces, and flat areas of bright color. I often stumble upon things in the construction of a painting that open up new ideas. The working process leads me to the final content through a series of mistakes and informed decisions.

I have always been interested in human interaction; in the spoken and unspoken ways people communicate with each other through body language and gesture. The figure in the interior is a way for me to give the viewer a somewhat voyeuristic look into the figure’s anxiety, urgency, or obliviousness to tension. The people in my paintings are twenty-something’s that are either in the throes of domesticity or in some kind of a groove outside commonplace experience.

In my paintings, the state of the interior is a mirror for the emotional states of the figures. Hopefully, the accumulation of objects, hallucinatory color, and the illusion of light will allow for a more complete understanding of the people in the paintings. I want my viewers to have a sense of being “in” the painting and to feel the disorientation of suddenly finding themselves in a new place.

Painting for me is about realizing how complex human behavior is without being able to completely express it. The act of painting is an attempt to communicate things that cannot be said simply."

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