Statement:

I dismantled my toys as a child, reconfiguring the pieces or combining them with other toys. My background in construction work, specifically the trade of plumbing, heightened my interest in diagrams, schematics, maps, and mechanical drawings. I have been around blueprints and the skeletal structure of architecture from a very young age. A curiosity about the internal structure of things and how they operate still exist to this day.

My paintings meld geometric abstraction with personal representation creating quirky, vibrant worlds. The result is an idiosyncratic hybrid that evokes animation, imaginary scientific propositions, blueprints, maps, and advancing technologies. The work combines these interests with the prosaic interactions of my daily experience. Isolated events provide found compositions which I then begin to manipulate: a seemingly mundane bike ride gets mapped into a well-ordered schematic of social interaction. 

A palette of optically vibrant hues animates the elements of each painting. Provoking sight at the initial stage of perception in order to captivate the viewer, I invent unusual abstractions that question utopian or dystopian societal views. My paintings are based on general principles or theories combined with specific instances creating broken narratives that complete in myriad ways. Line, shape, surface, color, shifts in scale, and disjunctive perspectives emerge as symbolic language that conveys the complexity of human experience.