statement

My paintings cannot but reflect the visual hybrid of the past and present world filtered through my thoughts and experience.

I investigate the gap between the historical word and the visual image by “translating" historical texts into a pictorial form, and in so doing embellish the scene with anachronistic details from my own spaciotemporal perspective.

Seeking to call attention to the inherently authored qualities of historical accounts, I use a painting style that proclaims its subjectivity, and also insists on the “hand of the artist” being present in my work.

I prefer to present a “natural” mode of depiction rather than fit within the mold of what paintings are supposed to be, especially if they’re supposed to be naturalistic -- attempting to capture the world exactly as the eye perceives it.