My work is self-referential and tends toward the autobiographical. I utilize aspects of memory and nostalgia to look at things around me in relation to the past. The elements are not necessarily fixed or preconceived. The pictures are caption-like…imagistic, expressing some content, but more like signifiers, which allude to a place beyond themselves; a snippet of passing existence, dispersed, but persisting in memory.

In making the work, I source raw imagistic material, which I process with drawing, paint, and collage. My selections usually have some connection to my family or me, but not exclusively. I use collage and paper as a medium because it allows for improvisation and chance. I usually begin with an image or object, be it copier generated, photographed, printed or drawn and react to it with paint, pencil and glue. I then rework: cut, glue, more paint, re-photograph, re-collage, scan, print and rework. I peel, sandwich and erase to create image. My pictures have aspects or elements that are more prominent while others recede, which as I work, may constantly change and shift.

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