My work is concerned with problems of surface, color, shape and line. I discovered artmaking in my early 20s and started painting about two years ago. My pictorial concerns are ultimately reflective of my experience, the way I relate to the people and objects around me.

In the process of creation, each piece feels like a dysregulated system of self-isolated tensions. A strong work requires the constant weighing of these tensions, and a heightened sensitivity to the opposing demands of discrete gesture and overall structure. 

I've never visited the desert, but I imagine it to be so arid and unclean. I'd like to make pieces that are clarifying in this regard, pieces that are actually quite alien in their overt transparency.