My paintings are informed by the momentary sublime that is rooted in the vastness of the natural world. The work is centered around landscape as a concept—unity, balance, focal points, and transitions—and explores the tension between conscious and subconscious interpretations of place and spaces. Through continually reworking intervals of space, rhythmic movement, and perspective, my work critiques the human consumption of natural locales, while honoring the poetic, everyday subject matter that is often overlooked. Each work attempts to draw from and convey both personal and cultural narratives; to preserve folktales; to survey notions of time; and to question our perceptions of reality by welcoming the supernatural or enigmatic. I am deeply interested in differing positions of interpretation and challenging conventional perception, which I feel abstraction encourages. I believe that each work created is deeply dependent on the ontological experience.