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The relationship of speed, time, and memory fascinates me. My paintings bear witness to a particular moment and are memories of actual events. For example, I mentally record things, which captivates me during a dinner with my girlfriend. I take notice of the pattern on her dress or the salt and pepper shaker. My paintings and drawings also feed off of video games, the history of abstraction, Chinese landscapes, manga comics, anime and other sources. The medley of sources is orchestrated to create or reconstruct a personal environment within the painting in which a new kind of sense is made. An environment in which beautiful and the absurd, the sacred and the mundane cooperate.

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IMAGE DESCRIPTION : 1. – ‘Slender fingers would hold me, slender limbs would hold me.’ 2004, oil and acrylic on canvas, 52.5 x 51 inches. 2. – ‘Slender fingers would hold me, slender limbs would hold me.’ Detail. 3. – Drawings, 2003, acrylic and sumi ink on paper, 14 x 17 inches, detail. 4. – ‘If I could be all you wanted, all the time.’ 2002, oil and acrylic on canvas, 12 x 103 inches. 5. – ‘If I could be all you wanted, all the time.’ Detail. 6. – Drawing2(detail), 14×17,sumi ink and acrylic on paper, 2003