The essence of my work is in the rendering of everyday situations to which the fantastic can be attributed, the surreal imagined, and the very real evoked.

In the vastness of city life, I am most inspired by the everydayness of things. It is an adventure for reasons I think most people are drawn to cities: you get tested, you find yourself, you lose pieces of yourself--all those almost-private moments in public spaces--where aloneness rather than loneliness tells the story. Just you and the city, quite a pair: raw, wounded, and unapologetic. In the city the glance, not the stare, evokes a stronger moment-a passing--that morphs into revelation as specificity and detail are removed.