My work explores the liminal space between creation and loss, desire and redemption, the illusion of permanence and the ravages of time. Forging a novel connection between classical techniques and modern materials and surfaces, the work is influenced by sources as diverse as the anonymous portraitists of Fayum, Velasquez, the song of cicadas, of air-cooled engines, Maître Gims, and the sound a glass makes before it breaks. 

Since my student days when a semester’s final project was stolen before I could turn it in, I have sought to recreate the tension between beauty and unattainability. I now create all of my works in the hope that someone will want to steal them.