My art is an attempt to find visual language for the paradox of wonder and tension in a fragmented world. I find pockets of the sublime in the cracks between things: seedlings breaking through sidewalk; branches lifting in the wind between a concrete staircase and a crumbling wall; the calligraphy of wires across a bruised cloud; a pale sun behind encroaching fog. These sideways bits of grace offer hope, in pieces, but they haunt--the remembered places and hours of light seem to promise a wholeness, and a sweetness, that is in constant tension with the eroding mechanisms of modern life.

In my paintings and works on paper I isolate and reassemble glimpses of time and discovery in an image-search more akin to poetics than personal biography. Drawing on influences ranging from abstraction to illustration, from mandalas to botany, I am engaged in a process of integration and world-building. I use watercolor, ink, and pastel to compile an improvised visual language for what catches, illumines, and sustains me. The results draw as much from the realms of the imagination as from the close observation of minute detail, and scale from the microscopic to the cosmic in a search for some kind of resonant harmony. Often the pieces articulate an outline of contested and persistent space--what we carve out from what we are given, what manages to resist the encroaching darknesses of modern life. The works become improvised diagrams for the connections between the incidents of grace and loss that mark a life lived between hope, despair, and constant contradictions, punctuated intermittently with the open expanse of sky and the resilience of growing things.