The world we live in is contingent on, and influenced by, massively unpredictable systems that define an understanding of space, place, and depth. My paintings are a conglomeration of signs, where the accumulation of imagery and painted layers creates a perplexing and tenuous notion of the “whole” built from many discrete fragments of perception. My oeuvre addresses notions of progress, instability, and system collapse as it relates to the built and natural environment. My artistic practice at its heart critiques the flawed modernist project through the exemplification of environmental signifiers that are emblematic of Anthropocene. I have found that the possibilities of an incongruent visual field, derived from visual information in the built and natural environment, are ample fuel for speculation of utopic possibilities. My work offers a visual experience which invites the viewer to contemplate the role of land(scape) in shaping the cultural imaginary.

Most of my work contends with various painting languages of abstraction, naturalism, digital codes, and diagrammatic schemes to layer representations of a place, resulting in a compounded view. The paintings' surface complexity is a product of the continual accumulation of visual imagery and materials. The scenes depicted in my paintings are contradictions, where form and gesture take on multiple aspects. This is heavily influenced by the notion that technological systems which facilitate a vast amount of mediated information play an important role in understanding one’s environment. The hyper-mediated visual world alters one’s experience of space and place. We live in a post-truth world where visual culture is a mass of accumulated information where truth is contextual. This sort of saturation demonstrates an imbalance: an overload of visual information, an opulent societal structure teetering at the edge of collapse. My work has evolved from overt messages disparaging energy production and distribution, to utilizing the environmental phenomena as a metaphor for catharsis and speculative futures that foster co-dependency and resilience.