Oil painter and collage artist based in Chicago, IL.

It starts with “what if?”

What if this was over there? What if that overlapped with them? What if it was a room? What if it opened? What if a wall was a door and outside was inside and all of it was happening at the same time with no way to stop it?

What if nothing happens? What if something already did? Where will they go? Where did they come from? Why do I care?

“What if” becomes the universe.

The picture is a singularity.

It is not an answer. It is an echochamber of all the questions I have,

every moment that I am working.

The image is a question. It asks you to believe what it tells you. What if you were a little boy in a tv? What if windows were mirrors? What if everything we see, all the time, asks something of us? The paintings speak to me, but they do not jump to conclusions. They challenge me. Tease me for thinking I know them; that I control them.

But they are not tools, and I am not a machine.

These images are entities. Independent and breathing. Like a fearful parent I can only ask “what if?”

What if they are misunderstood? What if they get lost? What if I didn’t do a good enough job? What if none of this matters? Or, even more terrifying; what if it matters a great deal?

The paintings do not answer. They show me new questions. What if it was ok to get lost? What if being misunderstood is an opportunity for newness?

What if trying is doing a good job?