The foundation for my art came during a largely unsupervised childhood

in which I distanced myself from actuality by envisioning my own small

world as a theater and casting myself as both playwright and lead

actor in countless fictions. In my current paintings I sew in pen and

ink drawings and I employ materials--resin, pigment, oil paint, and

string--in order to manifest forms at once familiar and

unrecognizable, visual fictions, compositions on the stage of my

canvases full of life and movement. When a viewer encounters my

figures, or "guys," as I call them, the initial impulse is to decode

or interpret, which is my knock at the door, my invitation to come out

and play.

I am especially interested in expanding the parameters of plastic art

by mixing different mediums that are at once strong and weak, textured

and smooth, light and dark. A collage that is not based on found

objects but instead on handmade objects which combine to form a new

compound art that is a study in wonderment and play and generated by a

distinct vocabulary by which I propel my narratives and proffer a

challenge to either discover the story or pretend a new one.