Artist Statement:

All my work originates from direct sources ranging from Japanese anime, space-age toys to 17th century Ukiyo-e. The resulting images recall the effects of a multitude of historical references, from Islamic ornament to 60's psychedelic, suggesting the transcendent possibilities of our 21st century's cultural immersion. Building and deconstructing the multiple layers of iconography is a great pleasure for me.

Using the computer as an abstracting tool, I convert found images into complex new ones, exploring the terrain between materiality and vituality, pattern and mutation, order and chaos as it relates to both the technological and the hand-made.

My most recent area of investigation deals with Andy Warhol's "abstract" camouflage series. Here I reworked camouflage patterns, which are abstractions of nature, initially used in wartime as tools for decieving the eye. Both the practical and the astheticized idea of "camouflage" have long fascinated me. The duplicity, history and even implicit psychology of "cover" are generative subjects for my painting.