Artist Statement

A chair by a window in a room in a house where people have thoughts that people want to know in a world that’s hard to find.

As a child I built rooms on my shelves. The loose structure of books were the walls and treasures from the junk drawers the furniture. 

I would give myself no limits of what reality was, while growing and trying to discover what reality could be. 

I'm still growing.

I understand my own reality by creating rooms to express certain feelings or behaviors. The way we interact with the room we stand in can tell us a lot about ourselves. How we hang our clothes. The seat we always sit in. The paintings on the walls. The books on the shelves.

I find representation of these interactions in my paintings. Using layers of mediums and materials. Collaging to have the freedom to give and take, learning as I go. Creating a dialogue between the characters and the spaces they find themselves in. 

Today, I build rooms. Reframing the canvas to create structure. Using moments of my past and present to fill the spaces, leaving no limits of what those moments could have been and finally understanding what this reality means to me. Come in, observe, look around. You might find something familiar.