You are driving around a new town and moving through unfamiliar streets.  Neighborhoods you’ve never seen before are connecting in your mind and balancing against places you formerly inhabited.  You are looking at your phone’s GPS and listening to the app give you directions as you try not to get lost.  You are also listening to the radio, which elicits some kind of emotional response.  You are looking out the window, forming opinions and making plans while (humorously, you realize in retrospect) ruminating on your past life and what brought you here.  Meanwhile you are responsible for a host of practical things like obeying traffic laws and maintaining enough gas in the car.
 
The way we move through the various frames and competing foci that make up our world is complex, unsettling, inspiring, and, at the same time, completely mundane.  My paintings reflect this state of fractured attention and sense of dislocation.  They offer a nuanced space that is both exploratory and familiar.
 
I want there to be more than one way to encounter my paintings.  They should present as open-ended situations for the viewer rather than singular discreet images.   In order to accomplish this, the painting process needs to be flexible, quick to change directions, happy to veer off course.  Structures and images taken from diverse sources are built up over time and then dismantled and obscured in subsequent layers.  Ultimately, the painting is the story of its own particular search for resolution.