Remember childhood? Remember all the ideas that seemed so certain at one point in time, but are now past tense. Just as the differences that define past from present become eroded through experience, so do the differences between natural and artificial, ancient and modern, analog and digital.

No matter how hard we try to capture fleeting moments of experience, we can never relive them, only re-imagine them, adding or omitting details and combining events. Through bending, twisting, firing, and hammering metal sheets, I seek to evoke these temporal and transitional states of being by manipulating the surfaces of painting and giving them more sculptural form. Meanwhile the paintings draw the viewer into recreated scenes of places both familiar and distant that have left their marks in my mind, to define places travel through in a search for a more permanent home. My idea of home was forever altered after moving to Asia in my early twenties, and I felt even more alienated from my native culture after spending so much time away, until the house I was raised in, might as well have been a gas station, my connection to it, both culturally and aesthetically, had become so altered. These urgencies of longing and transience push and permeate my work.

Each painting seeks to find that space between nostalgic notions of certainty and present experiences, where the only assurance is knowing that all things change, decay, evolve. The detail of a lintel on a house as ephemeral as a beetle's notch in a flower’s petal, just as a light box is another spot along the urban terrains that help define contemporary landscapes. There is no escape from the impressions man leaves on his environment, but there are feelings of disquiet. Even as there are natural elements left, they too are detached. There is only change. And in that transitional state, the liminal experience of Past and projected desire for Future—the desire for an unattainable stability and permanence—ever morphing the promise of new possibilities through the lenses of past experience.