I grew up on the prairies of South Dakota. The land there does not start or end but expands across miles of rolling plains and under the vast expanse of sky. With the great absurdity of everyday life taking place within these extraordinary distances, the people have adjusted to the prairies. This is reflected in their humor--dry, deadpan, self-deprecating and their manner--stoic, flat, and fixed in the present.

My recent paintings continue my interest in the problematized psychological relationship between humans and the natural world. I am utilizing the genre of landscape painting to suggest mystical, invisible worlds that parallel our own, often depicting colonization and escape from a desertified electrical planet. The color fields exhale atmospheric spaciality that are filled with imagery of oversized silhouettes of microscopic life and of plastic garbage in contrast with miniature silhouettes of humans. A recurring image in this series is developed from a diagram of the internet.