Artist Statement

             In my paintings, I create spaces based in reality that reinvent the mundane in order to create new perspective.  I relate this process to the function of dreams, that being to access what is on our minds by giving new context through a transcendental world.  This sometimes requires reorganization of the space, similar to the idea of a map so that much more is visible than a person can physically see or conceptually visualize in one moment.  Other times I highlight aspects of a place that others may consider unimportant but I find special because they are generally unnoticed, meaning there is less known about it and more for me to discover.  The last aspect of my paintings are the disturbing parts of reality.  This can vary from interactions of people in an environment to a sharp angle in a room.  Color plays an important role in my paintings.  I use it to describe the emotional feel of a place, to describe form and space and to accentuate the fantastical aspect of my paintings.