For me, paintings are first and foremost things, beings even, not images. I’m drawn to painting’s ability to materialize the ephemeral and embody time in a still object. My process-driven paintings evoke the experience of a specific moment, rather than a narrative. In a time of digital media, the relationship between surface and depth, interior and exterior, subjectivity and objectivity is especially compelling to me.

In my paintings and drawings, I draw on material from an archive of personal snapshots and sketchbooks, media photos, and art historical sources. Materially, I work with both drawing and painting media including graphite, oil pastel, gouache and oil paint. Working additively and subtractively, I incorporate previous iterations into the final work, contrasting illusion and material reality along with the past and present. Through this process, I tap into sensory knowledge and build a visual history of the painting that in turn creates the image. Everything is in flux until it’s not. Themes of ephemerality, the circularity of time, and the complexity of vision are through-lines in the work.