Statement

My work, while grounded in reality, draws on the aesthetic traditions of minimalism, realism, and remembrance art. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to evoke realms of the imagination. I seek to establish a link between reality and imagination based on my interior response to a subject….create a place where fiction and reality balance… well-known metaphors merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. In my exploration of landscape, I strive to amplify the astonishment of the viewer by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil, poetic images which convey traces of recognition and alienation.