My journey of making paintings has been about traversing paths, both exterior and interior. My concerns have led me to create a psychological / intellectual space through an exploration found in quantum physics. Fundamental to my process and thoughts has been the concept of the whole hole ([w]hole), the notion of completeness in emptiness.

While I was engaged with making "the red body" my concerns were with exploring the relationship between the front and back of the canvas in order to expose what is inside and what is outside of the body. This materiality allowed me to use space to interrogate memory. In order to read these paintings, the viewer had to imagine her/himself being able to turn to the painting's other side. This process of imagining provoked memory. The possibility of moving to the other side invited the ability to recall what one had just seen. (How did the view of the front of the canvas resonate to the back and vice versa? What did it mean to "be here"? How did what was presented coincide with, and/or, push away from the present?).

If the previous bodies of work involved a constant reference to a nonrepresentational view of memory and space, "the home series" involves a representational view of the present with memory to create a place called "home". The home series suggestively performs the relationship between self and the world that will resist the mastery of containment. How the place to which one returns after a journey is the repository for these experiences, for the resting place where the self sediments. Discovering that the self is an accumulation of these remembered states of existence, of the haunting impressions that follow one "home".

Over the years, my work evolves and moves in and out of physical space, from paintings to sculpture and installation. Exploring the relationship of self and my surroundings, I discover displacement. It is this feeling of displacement that pushes me forward, challenges my thoughts and creates visual form. “What Is Matter”, the most current work, is more of an exploration of the physicalness of life. Memories of which we hold on to that no longer serve us, that then get recorded and stored in our cells or expelled.

What Is Matter, has a whimsical, light appearance. However, when looked at closer, the viewer will discover anxiety, tension and incompleteness. The paths evoke a nervous energy that serves as a reminder of the temporal qualities of life: time wasted, as well as the pace of daily life. They are about unsuccessful systems and foundations that are breaking down, screens of information, something lacking cohesion …a lie.

I can only suspect that I will continue to investigate space and my place within it. Ideally, I wish to convey a sense of integration of the mental with the physical, evoke a coexistence with the here and other, and to momentarily experience the non tangible.