As an artist, I am profoundly interested in stories…our stories, yours and mine. I am drawn to places within stories where duality exists, where one phenomenon, principle or truth intersects with its opposite and the way stories seek to reconcile such things. My work – my own life, to be honest – is incredibly vested in these places of paradox and unanswered questions, the places of chaos as well as silence. There are places where opposites meet, where they intersect, where they rub against one another and create something new and worthy of consideration.

These paintings are less a linear, coherent story and more fragments of story that at first might seem disconnected. There are intentional silences within the work, hoping to mirror my own personal experience with stories. I draw upon elements of American Indian thought and imagery, cartography, Trickster and personal mythology as I seek to engage my own stories and the way they serve me.