“I am addicted to being in “the zone”—the I-am-making-something-and-have-therefore-lost-all-awareness-of-anything-besides-the-paint-and-paper moments of making art. It starts with something I’ve seen or heard outside the studio, (I’m perpetually on the hunt for the interesting and beautiful—especially small, insignificant things) that has made me stop and think—a shadow, a line, a phrase, a place where contrasting colors meet. My process is intuitive and responsive—using gestural marks, wet-on-wet painting, playing with transparent and opaque paint, wiping out and painting over the ghosts of marks left behind, and lines… so many lines. I use the lines as a tool for making connections, creating structure, texture, and moving the eye around the piece. My current love affair with paper stems from the non-preciousness of it that seems to foster experimentation, mistakes, and mapping out of ideas. I often play with the idea of mixing organic shapes and textures with architectural or mechanical elements. ”