I am interested in the undistinguished visual experiences that we habitually take for granted and ignore daily. The inert backdrop of our lives has become so common to us that we often dismiss the individual uniqueness of the items, placements and juxtapositions that surround us. We fail to realize that there are no “ordinary” objects, configurations or arrangements.

       I treat these daily visual experiences as transformed icons in my paintings and three-dimensional objects. The images are removed from their original landscapes and brought back through memory to be distilled and isolated into simple iconic drawings in which they are arranged on a picture plane or re-made into new objects to create a visual language.

       Similar to children’s drawings, the focus is only on the most important parts of the experience or “moment of discovery.” Objects and their color are often distorted based on their importance rather than their physicality or structured appearance. I abandon all unessential information, and the viewer becomes responsible for filling in the details.

       Each viewer carries a certain amount of pre-conceived information and uses personal experience to finish the image in his or her mind. The information presented draws upon those experiences and keeps the viewer interested and intrigued about the source of a particular work without being too specific. These images walk the line between being comfortable and familiar, and being uneasy and irrational causing the viewer to have a “moment of discovery” similar to what I have when I come across the original object or scene in daily landscape.