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"Art is most interesting to me when it renders more questions than answers. I never start a painting with the result in mind, and often the final product is just as enigmatic to me as the first brush-stroke, that element of the unknown that demands deliberation and makes painting so exhilarating. My goal for this body of work is to use traditional discordant visual devices and processes together to create a problematic yet harmonious image. Iron-transfers, exaggerated illustrations, geometric abstract patterns, and traditional figure paintings are a few of the tools I use to pose this problem of harmonious discord. Moreover, I employ the multi-panel format of the diptych to make obvious the dialogue that occurs between the conflicting imagery, styles, and techniques. The subjects in my artwork are chosen from my immediate environment. I am very familiar with the type of people and objects that I paint. These subjects, however, are never thought to be a part of a personal narrative, but rather they are separate elements intended to serve an experimental process. Moreover, I find that the work naturally develops a far more interesting explanation when I am not actively seeking it."
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