My work investigates the fractures and joinery between myself and the world around me in order to challenge the nature of my character. Oily, high chroma paint articulates forms and environments characterized by their luminosity. It is through metaphor, color, composition, and light that the intimation of my work reveals itself.

Within my paintings, the viewer moves impishly through feverish landscapes, where ferocity and desiccation confront images of sultry abundance. The natural world curls into, expands upon, and pulls apart from itself, forming stages for symbolic acts. Thermal lighting cites environmental realities and aims to elicit the feeling of coming upon something that until then was hidden. The paintings ask questions through the relationship between the light source and the darkness from which visions of attraction and temptation present themselves.

Through a language formed by my own lived experiences, art history, philosophy, and the state of our climate, my work explores the simultaneous feelings of intimacy and detachment. Although influenced by classical ideas, archetypes fall apart as personal mythology narrates the complexities of desire.