There is a lineage of artists who have long established the interconnection between two-dimensional forms and the material world. I am interested in extending this conversation. I think of my works as assembled paintings, but they are perhaps more properly identified as sculptures born of a planar understanding. I suggest that a world exists between surface and space. My paintings inhabit this world. I also believe that it is possible to strip the storied objects I find of their native identities and associations.

Tantra: indulgence with awareness, vision without judgment––observant, not evaluative. I paint along this continuum. My works come from an engagement with the materiality of paint and the complexity of the expressive mark. They enter into a dialogue beyond their powers to represent. Using smears, scratches, scrapes, and copious amounts of paint, I compose visual interrogatories of cultural minutia: metallic flashes, fake eyelashes, yoga mats, coconut water, glossy magazines, platinum blonde hair, gold hoops, turquoise, worn leather, furs, and painted nails.