My aesthetic interests lay in two contrasting environments: a man-made, urban environment, and the more “natural” environment that surrounds it.  I characterize the natural environment as rustic, uninhabited or undeveloped. In contrast, I see the urban environment as an intricate and complex product of human technology.  What fascinate me are the interplay, connection, and collision of these two worlds; man-made islands, an aerial video of a mountain range, a hurricane sweeping across a modern city.

My painting process attempts to capture my reaction to technology and nature.  My work is intended as a document of the spiritual practice of observing and creatively reacting to the opposing forces of technological and natural subjects.

The fact that the urban environment is largely composed of the products of modern technology, compel me to integrate it into my art. While acknowledging that nature has a powerful influence on my paintings, it is difficult to deny the pervasive influence that technology has had on the psyche and spirit of those of us residing in an urban metropolis.
The urban influence on my work is undeniable.  I am a product of my surroundings and the city is often my backdrop.  In the places I have lived; DC, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans; nature is often secondary to the constant hum of technology and modern city fixtures.  However, I find the “natural” in other ways – in city parks, in vegetation that grows over city structures, and more often than not, in video and photographs of distant places.  The interaction between my urban space and the “natural” becomes an abstract landscape where the two are combined.  These abstractions are present on the deteriorating walls I pass everyday, or the bus that speeds passed me on the street.

This idea of a landscape, both the urban and the “natural”, is what drives me to express myself in an “abstract” way.  As many critics of “Abstract Expressionism” have described, my images express feelings, sentiments and emotions in a way that cannot be told in representational drawings. 

My abstract images are meant to be evaluated aesthetically, outside of politics.  This does not mean that they do not reflect my own feelings or frustrations, rather that they provide simple suggestive forms and movements, which are free for viewers’ interpretations.
My intention was to create abstractions or, “visual cogitations” that do not alienate any group of people.  It is my hope that viewers feel compelled and authorized to aesthetically judge and interpret my images, not knowing the literal explanation for their existence.