​My work deals with edges.  What separates vision from the physical body?  Why do we contain and define images the way we do? What’s the difference between my art and my life, my self and others? What happens when those kinds of edges blur?  

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To accomplish this blurring, I manipulate the edges of the picture plane, making it soft, irregular, jagged, broken or unbroken, sometimes leaning into a traditional, rectangular structure. I see painting and drawing as methods for exploring separations between mind and body, self and other.  I use them to see my life against a busy backdrop of pop culture images.  Within paintings, I disintegrate my subject matter rather than collecting and containing it. 

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Drawing is equally important to my work, and I see it as functioning differently from painting.  I use drawing to translate my thought process and painting to generate images based on broader theories or arguments about painting's place in society.  Based on this idea, I often draw with paint, and have sometimes ended up making paintings with drawing materials.  Their divergence isn't about materials or formal qualities, but about how the mind engages differently in each activity.

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Much of the work I've made over the past two years is intended as installation.  Many paintings and drawings are installed across several planes in space in an attempt to externalize the way we navigate images in the digital environment.

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Questions about painting and drawing have occasionally led me to create performance and video work dealing with separations between subjective experience, physical embodiment, and 2 dimensional images, which I see as objects that exist somewhere between material and immaterial.  

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