Landscapes & Memories

I draw from the iconic imagery of rural childhood, the role that the family farm plays in our collective memory as a generational landmark embodying continuity between past and future. But these are not the subject matter; they are raw building blocks. These works use that communal iconography to construct spaces where the viewer can see themselves, not in an idealized pastoral narrative, but in the actual shifting textures of a life being lived with all its aspirations, chaos, and undeciphered dreams.

The works draw on the surrealist tradition, but where surrealism mined the unconscious for its distortions, these paintings find them closer to the surface. The residue of ordinary experience, accumulated across time, available to anyone who has ever carried more than they could easily set down.

The viewer is invited to recognize these spaces as their own, and in doing so, to take the measure of what they have been carrying.