When extremely vague suggestions of familiar things emerge from abstract work, I believe the viewer’s experience is heightened. We are in thin air, hovering between a search for reference and the splendid emotional state that can bloom in the absence of it.

My desire to create art and an interest in making constructed things led me to found object art, utilizing fragments of day-to-day familiarity to form a cohesive yet uncommon whole.

Looking for components, I choose according to impulse rather than preconception, allowing chance to set the stage for the development of the work. Most of the components I gather are worn or damaged.

In the studio I experiment heavily with temporary combinations in order to find mergers that excite and have some measure of compositional rhythm. During the process, I try to keep tendencies to develop representational imagery to a minimum. When in progress, my own take on these works remains vague until a personal interpretation arises, which then guides me to completion and titling.