why do I do this?

I am haunted by my inability to meet every person who ever lived, and confounded by the insecurities that keep me from approaching one today. My paintings begin as a broad meditation on humanity and its role on this planet and eventually turn inward to my own short, insignificant scene.

I often think about adversaries and the tropes that we have designed in order to point a finger at the oddities that we catalog the Other by, through Art and through memory, and how those memories and ideas change over time.

I am interested in paintings that resist looking mechanical within a digital world. I want imperfection, which echos the way humans have recorded stories throughout time. 

So I take stock of what I see, with tools that have been around for millennia, in order to make some sort of sense of it.