My work begins with the relationship between language and image. The images in my paintings often arise from thinking about language, both its presentation and the relationship between text and its associations. Recognizable text does not often make an appearance in my work; however, when it does, I try to work against the traditional hierarchical relationship in which language is used to control the image and work instead to create a relationship that treats language and image as equal, insistent conveyers of meaning.
I also work with images scanned from books and ephemera, grouped for reasons that have more to do with formal considerations than subject matter. When grouping images, I try to move away from the impulse to categorize, relying instead on color, negative space, and pictorial structure. The resulting works act as conversations, or exchanges of ideas, rather than attempts to explain one another.
Occasionally, I will present appropriated texts. These texts, disconnected from their original context, are allowed to float freely as images, presenting new opportunities for their content.