"Landscapes at Large" is a series in progress that has its roots in exploring a state of distraction. Images such as buildings, cars, and traffic cones come from sites I have seen while trying to get somewhere. These line drawings were placed onto my studio ceiling where the wood grain suggests landscape patterns. An example of this can be seen on the series page "You Are Already Here." The most recent phase of this piece are images of site specific installations where I re-introduce the drawings into the outside world by superimposing them onto vistas and tiny spaces. Here, I am also intrigued with the phenomenon of looking at one thing and seeing something else. Images play with perspective and scale in a way that often converts the distant and unnoticed to the up close and intimate. The drawings are simple, leaving the hand visible in the work as a means of contrasting interior and exterior worlds as well as adding an awkwardness or humor to the piece.

"Find Yourself Here I" and "Find Yourself Here II" are series made from travel magazines and linoleum tile. In the first series, landscapes are cut out, transformed into delicate line drawings, and placed onto the tile where striated patterns suggest depth. Part II of the series takes whole images and places them in areas that provide cues for three-dimensional space. They explore the desire for escape and are tributes to finding the fantastic in the ordinary.

"The World as it Goes by"is a series inspired by the peculiar state of driving from point "a" to point "b" with no idea how you got there. Acrylic shapes traced from my car windows provide a perimeter for miniature landscapes. Tiny images float in and out of the periphery and evoke the fleeting moment and the daydream.

The miniature is a re-occurring a theme in my work because it has the quality of drawing one into a unique world. In "Unrealized Vacations," "I Placed a Television in the Sea," and "You Know How I Feel About Views," the miniature represents the interior world. Be it unfulfilled hopes and dreams, romanticizing far away places, or the possibilities that come from drawing associations, these pieces explore a sense of place and how a space changes when something from one setting is placed into another.

Process is key to my work, using a variety of materials as a way of documenting experience and contrasting the stereotypical with the unique. Be it an instant, the mundane, or the imagined, I experience moments through my process, slowing down or revisiting forms in order to perceive that which would normally go unnoticed. I am interested in exploring the gap between where one is physically and where one longs to be. Through this interest my work becomes a meditation on the untouchable.