In my mixed-media paintings I combine drawing, including both recognizable images and abstract marks, with an attention to surface, both found and created, by using distressed panels of bare wood as supports for the graphic elements.

I use medical and scientific illustration as source material for my work because these images suggest the way imperfect forces, thwarted desires, and damage are critical to the development of identity. The physical restraints suggest both injury and correction. Images of childhood and references to children's playthings explore thenotion of children as objects of desire and beings with desire. The drawing elements create a distanced quasi-textual view of human experience while the sensual qualities of the panel; powdered pigment and glistening varnish re-direct the focus to the physical.

In all of my paintings the body remains central-is it vessel or source, trap or vehicle, friend or foe? I believe we are creatures of flesh shaped by chemistry, physics, joy and desire. What ravages us? The forces of denial, interruption, indulgence or transcendence hone us. We know intuitively that we are, that we live inside our flesh- call it mind or soul or consciousness, but where? For me the self is always shifting location in the body and in the frailties of memory. The relentlessness of time leaves us sure that this moment is the authentic one and the past, it's us, and a stranger too.