Inspired and informed by the conceptual template of Dutch Still Life, where disparate species of flora and fauna meet on the same plane, worlds collide, my paintings are about our contemporary personal temporality. Our situation now, is 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 blink, and the next moment we are asked to wake from our reverie of the on screen existence and navigate the real world.
   For the past decade, I have focused on collections, both high and low in our culture. Taxidermied animals coexist with real living creatures, kitsch exists next to high culture, and all exists in the human spaces that burst open into the infinite natural world, whether through a window or an opening in our everyday emotional existence.
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