The paintings initiate from a glimpse of a color or texture I observe outside (or drag inside). I then use a mixture of oil and water based paints as well as bleach and charcoal to layer these observed moments over text based abstractions, embedding imagery or pattern onto and into paper and other manipulated fabric surfaces. I use language as a text matrix for the first layer of a painting. It is meant as a place holder for thought as well as a functional structure to organize the painting itself. I look for ways to translate the relationship between the internal landscape of my mind and the external landscape that surrounds it. I point to the intersection of these dimensions through layers that create a vibration. I imagine my paintings as records of exploration but also as opportunities for the viewer to experience a collapsing of boundaries between internal and external worlds.