My work explores the systems people create to organize what they perceive in the world around them.  These systems can be based in science, religion, psychology, philosophy, and so forth. No matter how intellectual a system or idea may appear, it is always based on what is perceived through physical sensation. For this reason I use imagery of the body to depict “moments of contact” between the self and the other. I use paint as my primary medium to reinforce the concept of perception and interpretation through the body. In my works on paper I layer circular reproductions of my paintings as a form of mark marking and to convey an accumulation of moments of contact.

In each work the fragmentation of the moments of contact lends ambiguity to both the pictorial space and to the boundary between the people portrayed. Empty space and geometric elements are juxtaposed with organic imagery as a means to balance perspectives of reason and that of sense. From afar the work appears to be a unit that references objectivity via mathematical/scientific observation, and systemization.  At close range the system collapses, engaging the viewer intimately and personally. Due to the physical constraints of our being we are unable to interact with the work from both perspectives in the same time and space. This condition echoes our inherent struggle to simultaneously understand relationships from both the subjective and objective, the ordered and the chaotic.