…I have to discover the work as I go. My work contains a human messiness and playfulness as opposed to the clear, tight executed pieces. My paintings are not explictly about any one theme. They are open. I cast a wide net, trying to absorb, to catch the truth of my feeling and experience of our world, of our time, even if I don't consciously understand it. I am more antennae to the world than a separate ego organizing it. I am seeking to be true to my personal experience of being in the world, using what is immediately around me and in my head. Remembering summers past, dreaming of owning a beach shack, longing for change and improvement or getting away. I try to realize its emotional content with formal invention to make paintings that are coarse, funny, nostalgic and powerful, paintings that engage with your mind and your guts. Maybe in 20 years these paintings will be a time capsule of what it's like to be alive now. In the end they are all self portraits in a way. They are an expression of my sensibility. [Transcription of narration from film Psychological Landscapes, 2016]