Artist Statement
The veil between what is known and what is felt.
I am drawn to the veil—the permeable boundary between this world and what lies beyond it. My paintings are not depictions of the unseen but attempts to feel toward it, to trace the energies that move through and between us, present but unspoken.
My work lives in the space between here and there. A threshold we sense but cannot see or put our finger on. The place where what is known gives way to what is felt.
I like to work large. Spreading myself across the canvas, letting physical intelligence guide what rational thought cannot. The body knows things the mind cannot articulate, and it is that knowledge I am after.
I am a Pratt Institute-trained artist and a caregiver living in Petaluma, California. I maintain a studio practice at Slough City Studios. This work is how I process what cannot be spoken.
Artist Statement
Caregiving
For the past several years I have been the primary caregiver for my wife, who is living with ALS. It is the most humbling, exhausting, and deeply devastating experience of my life — and at the same time the most sacred experience I have been a part of.
ALS is a disease of thresholds. You watch someone you love exist in the space between here and there, still present, still themselves, and yet moving incrementally toward somewhere you cannot follow. There is no roadmap for this. There is only presence, and the daily act of showing up.
We have two children. Watching them navigate this alongside us, holding space for their grief, their fear, their love, is its own kind of sacred weight. We are walking through this together, each of us finding our way.
The studio became my refuge. Not an escape — there is no escape — but a place where I could bring what I was carrying and put it somewhere outside of myself. Paint, string, canvas. The physical act of making became a way of processing what words could not hold.
My work is not about ALS. But it could not exist without it. The veil, the threshold, the energies felt and not spoken of — these are not abstract concepts for me. They are the texture of my daily life.
I make this work because I have to. And I share it because I believe that what is most personal is often most universal. If you have ever sat with someone you love at the edge of something irreversible, you will recognize something in these paintings.