If painting were the written word, I believe figurative painting would be the novel. I love the narrative potential of a figure or still life painting: a study of a moment, a gesture, a shadow, a glow, or an expression. The narratives I craft borrow from stories in western media and art: stories and characters I have seen repeated and appropriated, and in which I see myself, for the better and for the worse.

  

Though my work is very self-referential, I am also investigating themes, genres and communities with which I identify. The figures in my work are an amalgam of myself, film ingenues and reclining female nudes throughout the cannon of art and media.