“I like the word believe. In general, when one says ‘I know,’ one doesn’t know, one believes.”
– Marcel Duchamp

Starting from points of personal experience, my work searches out relationships of time, history and psychological structures focusing on themes of humor, history, collapse and transition.  I play between fact and fiction as works become blurred in the space of history and memory as mythology takes over.  Painting reveals these unexpected places as a tangible illusion.

My current shoe and feet investigations play in the gap of mystery between punchline and question using shoe jokes, ancient parables and homages to people in history, using primarily feet and abstraction.  I prefer to use evocation rather than explanation. Using the subject matter of tragic events and the remnants and monuments of old American and European empires made from ephemeral substances, I use humor and the witness of people standing by in various shoes to probe these historical and psychological supports to create an open space for questions rather than explanation.  My process requires seeking through collage and mixed media to arrive at images that become changed again as I paint.

Painting lends itself to these concepts by recording an archaeological, tactile way of working that becomes about displacing feeling and thought over time, leaving traces. 

December 2025