For me it’s a wondrous heap of possibilities. 

- Agnès Varda, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

Stitching together zones of color and constellations of images that slip into one another, I paint maplike pictures populated with the likes of flowers, faces, fruit – a mélange of symbols and objects far-flung and familiar, ambiguous and specific. Confronting with desire and distraction at every turn, the viewer contends with excitement and confusion through playful compositions, fragmented shapes, illegible lines, and an uncanny palette.

As a self-taught painter, I channel the curiosity, exploration, and fearlessness of the kindergarten students I have been teaching for nearly 20 years. Interlaying painting, drawing and collage, I work in a stream-of-consciousness style. Each entry point and viewing experience reveals new linkages and surprises. As if sifting through a drawer of mementos, some remembered and others forgotten, we meander through landscapes where sense-making stops and experience and experiment are the only true guides. 

In contrast to direct meaning and linearity, I depict the discombobulating experience of occupying multiple physical and metaphysical realms at once: living and nonliving, visible and invisible, present and past. Ultimately the paintings are both humorous and serious, portraits of a child’s imagining of adulthood or an adult’s rendering of childhood.