From a spark of connectedness, moments when I feel profoundly understood by friends or intrinsically a part of my surroundings, my drawings emerge. Using pens, watercolors and ink I approach my drawings as thought they were collages: selecting artifacts and details from photo-reference or the living world and configuring them into disjointed momentary landscapes.

Concerning myself primarily with formal and compositional inquiries, I allow the content to develop intuitively. This enables the work to unfold without the burden of having to produce a legible narrative. As the drawing process approaches its resolution a conceptual framing of formal and thematic elements begins to emerge. The work accumulates its meaning through a steady attention to process, simultaneously influenced by chance and my subconscious.

An investment in sincerity acts as the unifying principle for my work. I want the viewer to feel that I am confiding in her and she is in turn welcomed to confide in me. A prescribed voyeurism haunts the visual arts; I attempt to disrupt this in my work by engaging the viewer in less consumeristic modes of looking. I entrust the viewer with a precious vulnerability that undermines unilateral consumption. With every look into my work, there is a looking back.