On the floor of my studio lie piles of pages torn from magazines, textbooks, novels, children’s stories, poems, and thick heaps of print material that I find and collect. Gifts from friends, a lucky find on a walk, hours spent scouring nearly abandoned bookstores—like a deck of cards, these shuffled fragments order and reorder, making their way into otherwise abstract paintings on thin, reflective aluminum panels.

My practice is driven by improvisation and play, automatic drawing, and un-conscious associations. I am interested in the search for a ‘contemporary image’ and the confusion and surprise of recognition, a destination only revealed in the process of making. For me this starts from a state of dis-location, of loss and meaning in constant flux, and of heightened emotional states and cycles of information. I begin with the material relationship of paper on aluminum held in place both structurally and expressively with colored paint. My current series takes the theme of our rapidly changing relationship to the natural world. I search in faith that the right image offers help.