Artist Statement:

My work owes much to the medium of documentary photography and its intention to capture a glimpse of a lived moment. I draw my imagery primarily from personal snapshots. Often, the images are imbued with suggestions of symbolism, dream and memory, which may suggest a different but no less authentic kind of truth.

The snapshot offers impressions of culture, place and the human condition. Through paintings and drawings, my work engages with the photograph toward meditation on our spaces of dwelling, interconnection and isolation. Rich with fragments of narrative, my work presents windows through which to glimpse significance in the commonplace. These images offer spare impressions, speaking to the fragile and impermanent nature of life.

In much of my current body of work I explore spaces in Philadelphia and Oakland through saturated watercolors and dense pencil drawings. These images contemplate how our physical spaces are charged with the richness of our cultural, spiritual and emotional landscapes, even when people themselves are absent. Often, they frame small moments of individuals' public expression - creative gestures that are at once quiet, almost unnoticeable, and at the same time powerful and poetic.