My process usually begins with image transfer as a way to paint with photography. Since the photos were taken by myself, in a way I’m painting with fragments of my own memories. These fragments can be personal, banal, powerful or barely legible. But there are forms anyone can recognize, which will conjure different memories and associations.
Starting from a ground of imagery and building upward, an environment is formed where no story can exist without an older story beneath it. The ghosts of our past selves are imprinted in the environment we take for granted. My work buries and reveals these artefacts, creating ties between layers obscured and rediscovered, much in the way a city builds upon its past self while allowing glimpses of its origins to remain in light.
