My painting explores the idea of an asymmetrical balance that creates paradoxical, spatial relationships and the ambivalence associated with identity.

I employ abstraction or semiabstraction as a means of compressing my personal perceptions and experiences, which are often intertwined with sociopolitical and cultural specifics. Arch shapes, distorted square forms, and other idiosyncratic elements with recognizable shapes and patterns are personified to suggest their multifaceted, and sometimes contradictory, relationships that can be both confrontational and comforting.