"Lights out”, 2024

Reviewing, revisiting, and rethinking: The constant repetition of the ordinary weaves itself through my paintings, drawings, collages, and prints, playing on a loop. Using primarily oil paint, I work to preserve the everyday, the moments around the monumental.

My biggest task lies in pinning down each small moment the way one would pin down a butterfly. I collect old photographs and postcards, marrying the subjects into my compositions using layers of glaze and impasto paint to conceal and reveal imagery and motifs throughout the work. People and places from found imagery fuse with my own memories to create an uncanny somewhere on the razor's edge of reality, falsehoods and truths melded together- invented snapshots telling tall tales.

I am captivated by constructed spaces, hazy and ambiguous; they are each real to me, whether places I have visited and captured, or simply an instant witnessed in a fever dream. My work is an uncovering, the truths that we bury wrapped in the guise of the unassuming. I create because I must. I paint until the painting makes sense, and I cannot stop until it does. Each piece slowly revealed, a new discovery on an archaeological dig.