Giggles and sighs. Small paradoxical moments probed in a painting.

I use an alphabet of recurring and evolving shapes that reference inter-connection, the human body and humor. I hope the shapes hold those references for the viewer while presenting something surprising or uncanny in combination.

My paintings teeter between a cartoony figuration and abstraction. For me, abstraction is the clearest way to communicate contradiction, ambiguity and doubt – about art, about process, about life. It is clear because abstraction allows a shape to be more than one thing. It is clear because an image can reference everything and nothing. It is clear because it is not clear.