Painting has always been a means of story-telling about my life, my dreams and visions, and my observations of the world. I process things visually. My natural inclination to allegorical, narrative work has continued to deepen over time. Now I am playing with mixed realities, and I seem to be developing a gritty magical realism in some of these pieces. Personal and social issues and observations are becoming more prevalent in my work again.

In the natural course of art history contemporary realist painting needs to expand to include new subject matter and points of view. And that representational work, in being defined as realism, include elements that are abstracted. And it’s a lot more fun to compose paintings this way. In my own manner, I dissolve the borders of expectation simply by creating the work that I do.