My paintings are often about relationships between physical spaces and the mind, and how intense they can become, especially during periods of isolation and displacement. I always aim to express emotional complexity in understated ways, so I'm careful with my color palettes and prefer the visual softness of matte, opaque paints like gouache and Flashe.
Physical spaces are closely tied to memory and emotion, and aloneness is not always loneliness. Having grown up in a desert city full of disposable architecture, and later living the semi-nomadic life of a renter in the Pacific Northwest, my sense of "place" is defined more by the landscape than buildings—so plants appear often, and whether those depicted are native or invasive has symbolic meaning. The architecture that does appear is part dream, part memory; never observation.
