Statement (working document):
My paintings document fleeting relations and environment that take root through approximation and uncertainty. Dreams by nature are related to the unconscious and they have the tendency to reflect our own image back at us; what we believe in, what we value and our existential anxieties. The figure, in my work, is often exaggerated in form and color while it exists in imagined environments. These environments are depictions of emotional attachments to real life locations and experiences, due to my desire to reconcile past tragedies and embellished memories to uncover truths. Memories and dreams in my work exist in a blurred context as they would more often than not overlap. In many ways, the difficulty of this work lies in its inherent qualities of illusion and fragmentation. The foundations are fragile, easily broken because they are rooted in the mind's reflection and evidence, and not the concrete evidence of fact. My role in this is to reconcile these ideas and make them legible by combining ethereal, spatial washes with contrasting fully-rendered figures to manifest the imagined experience of inhabiting a blurring reality.