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If you look at my older work as a collective, you might ask yourself what a landscape, a portrait of a monkey, a cow, a butterfly, or three texting heads have in common. -You may also experience a lonely feeling, in each painting. In my painting Loneliness, the critical eye of a cow dares the viewer to see herself as an object (windmill floating in the backspace), reckless and unbound as in youth, and the forefront cow head, being the present and my conscience (or tag on cow’s ear). My works represent my environment and emotional reality, in oil, mixed media on canvas, paper, or wood panel. Each work is a physical embodiment of myself as the whole painting, supported by muddied paint, lines, or other structures, as a solitary piece, or floating object in the background. In the process, I carve out a small revelation of self. This work is the most direct language I am interested in using. -Like in music, the printed word; beauty that is not so apparent informs my work. The starting point of each painting is an emotional response to the subject that speaks or mirrors something about us all. Each painting is in dialogue with the one created before it. My paintings are about the developing world we live in, re-examining the nature of objects around the human domain that obliquely asks what we are.

I am currently painting animal portraits and people. It is an entirely new platform for me revisiting the basics of the anatomy of the head (dogs, cats, and humans).

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