I treat the world as a found object.

Through a fascination with the technology of paper and the vigilance of the natural world, I play with the syntax of form making. My work juxtaposes the physicality of painting with how I remember life to be. I layer rice paper, wood-ash, ink, cardboard, roots, bone, rust, leaf, and acrylic until the piece activates in a history of its own creation. The challenge is not to succumb to vision or mire in rumination. My subjects are often dark and menacing. As ghosts, they provoke those who see my work to look carefully at themselves and summon the courage to confront what haunts them.