I use familiar structures and environments blended with pixels and graphic marks, and space that layers many points of view, from virtual to eye-level to create a push and pull between the information in the painting. I have always used a very bold color palette, and use color in many different ways to create space, stimulate, give a likeness to an object, and to create an overall emotion, and atmosphere that is detached, slightly artificial, and seductive. Like life. I like to mix earthen grungy colors, with hyper-saturated hues to create still another slide between things natural and artificial, and then there are points where this coexists too.

My paintings are not meant to be foreboding. Joy and interest are present, but with some skepticism and worry about external forces on my natural human state. I wonder where the balance lies between the virtual and the natural.