This series makes use of collaged elements, abstract geometrical landscapes, and intricately rendered animals and objects to explore the idea of liminal or interstitial worlds. A Buddhist monk once said “how can I die if I was never born?” The notion of time, and more specifically, its flexibility as more than a linear progression, is the driving force in the subject matter. This series is in part an atheist/agnostic's exploration of the universal.

Each painting is an exploration of a mental state or philosophical idea, and abstracted landscapes provide the setting for the exploration of these ideas. The subjects of the paintings are metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic, and they exist in the landscapes as interpreters of larger human narratives.

The paintings can be seen as a post-apocalyptic fantasy of life without humans, or at least a world before or after the viewer/artist arrived on earth. They can also be perceived as internal, mental worlds- free of our physical presence. Collaged words and illustrations in the landscape hint at the past and future of human civilization. The subjects of the paintings, which are often birds, are often metaphorical. These are migratory, ephemeral creatures of endless variety, always present in the sky and yet difficult to comprehend, imitate, or reach. Some of my most recent works are stripped of figurative elements, but continue to use collage as a means of tying human history to abstract investigations of form and color. The abstract form thus encapsulates and simplifies the convoluted mass of human invention and civilization.