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"There are no new ways to understand the world, only new days to set our understandings against. "

-David Berman

My practice is process-based.

I combine everyday thoughts, personal symbols, abstraction, language and pattern to create multivalent narratives that coexist within a visual space. Through layers of imagery, erasure, and repetition, I extend the act of painting for many weeks in order to respond precisely to a singular event that ultimately frames the subjects of each piece. This labor intensive process employs equal parts doubt, confidence, revealing and concealment to create a work that becomes an event in and of itself. In this manner, I am able to inhabit an individual moment of inspiration, and craft an object that interrupts the movement of time. I offer a viewer radically cared-for surfaces that gradually reveal themselves in the unspoken interaction between perceiver and perceived, and suggest specific import while resisting finality.