I'm an abstract painter who juxtaposes the natural with the unnatural. 

The touchstone of my process is rice paper. I treat it as a substitute for skin, adding wood-ash, ink, cardboard, roots, bark, and acrylic as adornments. My work isn't really made, it accretes; it grows. During this time, revelation guides direct and forthright portrayals of history, emotion, and ideas. I'm there smiling, scowling, laughing—watching it all unfold. The challenge is not to succumb to vision or mire in rumination. My subjects are often dark and menacing. They are ghosts. They come through as they are. The goal is to provoke those who see my work to look carefully at themselves and have the courage to confront what haunts them.