I like the moment of handing over a thought that is private. Here, you take it. I don't know what else to do with it. I thought it, I made a note, and now I'm done. Basically, I make a note and I stick it on a wall wondering if someone will connect with my take on things.

I respond to moments and environments. I want to make it clear that moments exist within environments, the same way that environments exist within moments. I illustrate possibilities, ambiguities, definitions, and observations. My work is always narrative. I want to write a story where there doesn't seem to be one, to cause a surprise or an unintentional connection. I use collage for layers, pencil for the cloudy ones, and ink for when it really needs to stick.

In regular life it is just the details, tidbits, and little grains that fill up my time. Managing the train during rush hour, deciding which vegetable to buy, and checking the mail often seems like enough. But there is something to be said for giving recognition to the ingredients before you take a bite of the meal. It is so hard to truly comprehend the whole of things, the big picture, which is why I am an advocate of the tiny investigative bites.

I want to communicate that we are more or less pointless specks in an incalculable universe. How to do this while conveying how tremendous and imperative every instant of our lives can feel has been the ongoing impetus for my work.