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 ​ I am overwhelmed and delighted with the abundance of information that comes through my computer, contemporary print industry,and media. It becomes, for me, a culture of overrun, excess, and saturation.  My work is a reconciliation of living in our contemporary culture where one moment we are seated in front of a computer screen receiving  information from all parts of the planet in a single instant and the next moment we are asked to wake from our reverie of the on screen existence and navigate the real world. It is as though one lives inside of a three dimensional ever shifting collage emotionally and physically. Inside and out, our choices are becoming endless and  myriad disparate ideas inhabit the same space emotionally and physically. The edges blur and time seems to compress. Whether living on the prairie or in the middle of New York City, our awarenesses of the worlds around us are multiplying endlessly through our digital reach.   Beginning with a template of Dutch Baroque, I've had the advantage of the "built in" content of disparate specimens and objects brought together by the then burgeoning trade routes. I see parallels between the new society being made then and our sped up contemporary situation now.
The farcicality of the work is evident. Our lives have become more surreal and removed. To me, it is about a world that is unravelling in unexpected ways, dreamlike in experience. It is as though our stories and events are surprisingly, but not unpleasantly out of place. The story is a bit more dizzying and psychedelic than the original tale. I believe this earlier work came out of my desire to make paintings that read as dense literary passages. It was my idea that they should be apprehended all at once, Not linearly, as one would read printed work. This way of thinking came out of a process of making paintings by making lists of words and ideas, then arranging and layering them into paintings.