Statement Central to the evolution of my work is recording perception and cognition, through my surroundings and direct experience. The urban environment provides a setting for my investigations, as well as an exploration of individual and social identities. My interest in human behavior is focused on how we have transformed the landscape to meet our ideas, perceived needs, and desires. The logic of utilitarian spaces, seen in rows of packaged meat, the grid of a parking lot, or a maze of freeways, is indicative of our self and collective conceptions. I paint the places between point A and point B. Places that usually blur by on the way to doing something. As if the subject is seen through a thick pane of glass, I create a feeling of distance. Experience is redefined as a continual change of patterns occurring within natural and social structures. I allow this process of change to shape the image as an accumulation of time and a record of daily reflection.
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