Totem Cactus with Art

Artist Statement: Through my paintings, I negotiate the complex notions of reality explained by physics and an intuitive sense of reality experienced directly through the senses. This leads me to describe a realm beyond visual perception which I depict with abstract elements and layering techniques in my paintings. Optics, vision, insight, reading, study, and confusion are themes that relate to the tension of the perceptual vs. mathematical realities. They are explored through images of windows, telescopes, magnifying glasses, optical diagrams, unreadable books, and other objects collected to be studied and compared. Combining illusionistic painting with abstract elements operates as another parallel between perception and that which is beyond it.