I intend for my drawings to sit between comic tragedy and cautionary tale. Although there are many sources that inform my work--Victorian children's books, Buddhist philosophy, cinematography, stories in the New York Times, and satirical writers such as Voltaire--it is living in contemporary America that informs my work most.

I am interested in what current political, economic and social events tells us about who we are and who we are becoming.  I feel we are missing compassion, gentleness and humor in American culture. When we barrel ahead, unaware of each other and convinced of our invincibility, we set the stage for disaster, and disaster is bittersweet -- horrific and sweetly tender. I use watercolor to render the chaos pretty, and to illustrate the naiveté I witness within our cataleptic culture. It is the quiet poignancy in a terrible event that captivates me.

I am not interested in stories, but I am interested in narrative.  I am interested in the narrative that is created in the mind of the viewer – a narrative that depends on the projected meanings and constructed linkages the viewer invents -- meanings determined by individual values, knowledge, and prejudices.  

I work from appropriated Internet images as well as my own photographs.  I think about how technology is playing a role in the tradition of painting and drawing, and how our easy access to global information via the Internet has changed how we experience the world and how we consume and understand images. The Internet has made the world smaller and homogenized, and at the same time strange and convoluted.  It is this strange, painful intimacy that I strive to represent.