I make paintings and non-traditional photographs to explore perception and conflict. I am drawn to processes that make visible evidence of chance, uncertainty, and discovery. I look for things I have never seen before.

 

In my paintings, I use sourced images that include fractured landscapes and predatory animals in order to explore power systems that occur in both nature and culture. I am interested in examining confrontational imagery expressed through a fleshy color palette. I cut and embed images in sweeping layers of paint that through revision reveal multiple perspectives. I want to show the dynamics of power relationships and vulnerability through mutually dependent systems of damage and repair, erasure and recovery. Sometimes we cheer for the predator, sometimes the prey.