These paintings are concerned with ideas of the gigantic and the miniature, each of which contains a space. Painting the organization of my own personal belongings is a method for countering the containment of people through translation. The specific subject matter includes quotidian objects (what accumulates on tabletops in a home), the genre of still-life painting, and drapery.

Intrigued by abstraction and its reluctant relationship to language, I paint text. Yet I am not a writer. Instead, I collect words and phrases from what I see, read, and hear on any ordinary day. My goal is not to follow language’s lead toward transparency, but to explore what the intersection of painting and language can tell us about both.

I take a minimalistic approach to trompe l’oeil painting, creating frameless paintings that seem void of depth. The paintings resemble common flat surfaces, ranging from wooden planks to street signs. The illusionistic surface allows for the painting to be viewed as a sculpture, which encourages the viewer to consider the work as a found object or ready-made, raising questions of authorship.