My work focuses on two extremes of being- the physical and the mental, anatomy and cognition. I am interested in the moments when they overlap and where they come apart. Using ephemeral washes, I create spaces inhabited with bodies and depictions of thoughts where happiness, bliss, and euphoria are the proof of existence. The work is about the physicality of existing in a body that is part of everything that surrounds it. The line between the macro and micro cosmos is blurred.

The Ecstasy paintings are intimate portraits of my family and myself, in moments of pleasure, pain, meditation and sleep. I work from photographs taken during these times when a pure consciousness overwhelms the body. During the act of painting, I focus on painting with pure intent; meaning that I remain focused on a specific set of emotions through out the entire painting process. In that way, the act of painting becomes a meditation on mind and body, a prayer for wellbeing and love.

The Cosmos paintings are depictions of thoughts and mental activities during moments of enlightenment. They are ambiguous cosmic spaces, the universe or inside cognitive thought. The crystalline structures map of points of understanding within a mental space and become an exoskeleton for thoughts.