My work is an exploration of a specific kind of beauty existing at the intersection of the natural and the artificial.  I’m interested in how the two collide in visually, culturally, and sometimes politically striking ways. Most of us expect to have moments of awe in the historically “beautiful” scenes or subjects of a landscape painting, but perhaps the expectation that a beautiful sunset will inspire awe, prevents us from seeing the magical in the daily scenes of life. Capitalism and consumer culture create much of the world around us— for many of us, more so than the natural world—and slowing down to take in the collision of those two worlds can provide a new way of seeing, or expecting to see, beauty.

The aim in all my work is to tap into the physiological and psychological dimensions of seeing—how we interpret the beauty, the violence or the mundaneness of a scene informs how we move through the world, and indeed, how we choose to treat ourselves and one another.