Painting is my way of collecting, organizing, and articulating intangible sensations and observations that otherwise I could not express. My imagery is derived from personal photographs, magazine advertisements, sketches from life, vivid memories, striking literary passages, and free invention. The narrative is non linear; woven together with implied associations that are illuminated through the mode of expressionist and symbolist logic. Upon starting a painting, although I have a general idea of what I think it will look like, the product is rarely what I originally conceived. My process is similar to throwing a pile of clothes onto the floor and, with concentrated gusto and effort, picking up, folding, and reorganizing them into piles until they feel and look like they all belong just as they are. My paintings are worlds unto themselves; expeditions into the enchanted and the unknown. I work in water-based media;acrylics and water soluble oils;mediums that require manipulation and lend themselves to being built up in layers. I enjoy the immediacy of these mediums because they give rapid shape to my ideas, and they never seem too precious as to keep me from reworking or painting over. I work in a way that is full of surprises that thrives in the midst of the picture taking shape;like something invisible exploding into the realm of the visible. Desire, loss, and radical subjectivity are constant themes in my work. My subjectivity is paramount since the images are reduced to generalized terms, for example, girls and flowers in dark spaces. My flowers represent transient states of being, a visceral experience held fully in the present as an image. The figures are placed in a darkness; the landscape of memory, loss, and death. I employ the darkness as a way to slow the viewer down, to suggest spatiality through the least possible means. I am interested in presenting a synthesis of derived information from that world and creating one all my own.