In my most recent work I explore a spectrum of visual metaphors for veils. A veil is a division between two separate, often disparate, worlds. It is a covering that often culturally implies an eventual or possible breach. In the Judeo-Christian tradition veils separate the physical and metaphysical worlds. It is through the breach of that veil that spiritual and transcendent experience is had. The veil then implies the location where the physical and spiritual worlds interact and commingle.

In my work I investigate these ideas formally, thematically, and conceptually. My imagery is derived from a variety of sources such as life, memory/imagination, video, old black and white family photographs. While the imagery is often varied, the work is unified by a conceptual origin, the veil. I seek imagery that conceptually or literally implies two disparate realities and I use it to probe where and how they interact. I try to imply a veil breached by collapsing polarities both thematically (as in the play between nature and the man-made world) and formally (as found in the condensed tonal and chromatic scales of some works). Much of my work begins from a biographical narrative and attempts to distill that imagery into a rhetorical and emblematic form.