Artist Statement

My work aims to compose my stream of consciousness onto a substrate in order to create an image. I paint with the intention of allowing color and line to guide the viewer eventually through every aspect of the composition. I want every detail to be considered, and because of that, I work to make the work easily accessible though not so easily digestible that it is easily disregarded. I usually work out the piece by starting directly on the substrate, giving me animated forms and less rigid compositions.

In the work are ideas of nostalgia, surreal experimentations, formations bordering on psychedelic, and an implication that pop culture has a consistent, albeit frayed, place in my paintings and drawings, and therefore, my consciousness.