My paintings depict psychologically infused narratives where the familiar is imbued with a sense of sublime mystery. Figures are suspended between dreams and reality, transfixed by surreal aberrations, ethereal elements and transported states of mind. Visual components are allusionary reflections drawn from my past growing up in an insular religious group, living in a milieu of end-times prophecies, unsettling otherwise quiet perceptions of banal Midwestern normalcy. Undercurrents are fused with influences of film, science-fiction, magical realism and place to explore isolation, longing, wonder and loss in an attempt to visualize inchoate feelings, atomized and diluted with the distance of time.
