“Tell me who you are haunting, and I’ll tell you who you are.”

-An old French Proverb

From a young age I developed a horror of death – and I don’t know what scared me more – the idea of myself, along with all I love, ceasing to exist, or the idea of existing forever. This angst over the mortal condition is the primary force that drives my art. My work is influenced by the Sublime and the Romantic notion that the world of spirits exists around us, if only we knew how to peel back the veil. In my work I render pieces of a fractured whole – pockets of order under the forces of entropy that pictorially and tenuously negate nothingness and temporarily elude the abyss. These fragments lend themselves to the overall gestalt of the work, providing a fleeting glimpse of the frailty, beauty and absurdity of this precious life.

My present body of work investigates love and loss as we cycle through nature. Form is implied through variance in texture, wispy modeling and gestural line work. Exposed areas of underpainting coexist with greater degrees of finished and layered areas, resulting in a contemplation of narrative that negotiates non-linear descriptions of time.  The partially rendered forms and visible areas of underpainting give the impression that the figures are either materializing or dissolving – speaking to the transient nature of humanity, "Thrown", as Martin Heidegger said, into existence.