My current work can be put into two categories: work with backgrounds, and work without. I have begun to see the backgrounds as reflections of waking life. They are about the individual in relation to her environment, and her experience in a physical space. Neither the figure nor the background can be separated in this instance, and the two are given equal weight. My figures are always based on the way they feel, not the way they look, and the backgrounds in these paintings are similarly created from the emotional quality of the space.
The second group of paintings I have worked on, void of backgrounds, are based on one's life in dreams. In this world, the individual begins to lose her sense of boundaries, and her emotions spill out into the empty space. She fills this environment with her presence, and has nothing to respond to but the overflow of herself.
I make these paintings to uncover something honest about my personal experience as a human being in modern society. Like dreams themselves, everything in my work comes from an emotional core, and the deeper meaning will depend on what the viewer brings with him.
