Statement on painting, observation, and composed time

If painting is an act of observation, then our individual observational faculties are derived from the memories and relationships that inform how, where, and why we look. Today cameras have become the most common way to document our visual experiences, but the compositional techniques we use to create photographs precede them by thousands of years. We have been painting, drawing, etching, and otherwise tracing our world and each other for centuries.

I like to think of my paintings as investigations. In those investigations, I return to those composition techniques and search for their contemporary features. Slowing the clock, preserving memories in a picture, confronting how vast, colorful, and alive our world is, and permitting myself to gaze at the emotional depths that reside in the most surface level human interactions are crucial to those investigations. I aim to give you what I see imbued with subtle clues about how I feel about the story unfolding on the canvas.

The reward of this painterly activity is a salience and optimism that I hope my work conveys. Images are long-lasting and drenched with meaning. They reveal with such generosity. It is a pleasure to be among them.