I paint translations of translations of translations: people, people-like objects, and animals with flurried, layered mark-making of varying speed and pressure. 

My painting process is the expulsion of energy, an exercise in which images of living things, anthropomorphized objects, dolls, and lawnmowers assume roles they have been assigned. These characters become vessels that hold my thoughts, desires, and neuroticisms. My subjects are washed in, drenched with the self, shaped in my image, akin to offspring. In my active, dominant role as a painter, bodily drips of paint draw life and light in and out from crevices. This role allows me to balance my self-perception and redefine preconceived definitions and borderlines of identity. Through paint I can caress, assault and stroke, I can abuse, impregnate, love and condemn. I can, through paint, experience as many rewritten lifetimes and transformations of the self as I can make paintings.