Connection and isolation. Kindness and violence. Laughter and sighs. Paradoxical moments probed in a painting.

I use an alphabet of recurring and evolving shapes that reference the human body, touch, growth, cartoon, and humor. I hope the shapes hold those references for the viewer while presenting something surprising or uncanny in combination.

I explore a liminal space between figuration and abstraction. For me, abstraction is the clearest way to communicate contradiction, ambiguity and doubt – about art, about process, about life. It is clear because abstraction allows a shape to be more than one thing. It is clear because an image can reference everything and nothing. It is clear because it is not clear.