My work as an artist rests in this simple assertion: We are collectors of stories and the stories we collect shape the people we are. In narrative style, I create paintings engaged in story: both its function and its telling. I see my role in this process as mediator and disrupter: standing between two opposing things, separating them, placing boundaries in new and unusual places and joining them once again. I work in this manner that I might see things in a new way.

 These Recent Works build on my past work with stories, but marks the beginning of new explorations. I am currently investigating narratives that have shaped the collective imagination.  With the idea that narratives are never neutral, I want to discover, investigate and understand how systems, structures and cultures are built upon stories. And where those stories are dysfunctional, what can be done to create new ones?