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I use personal knowledge to build magical dimensions. My work is more about what holds it together than what is ultimately looks like. Drawing, collage, photography and painting play important roles in how I organize my work formally, although I am motivated by a process that I describe as an “active search” in which I incorporate material from my immediate world and everyday experience and then arrange it in a way that is organic and surprising to me. This “search” allows me to construct paintings that are composed of multiple individual elements that are then dismantled in the resulting fictional space of the work. Patterns on the floor, memories of my childhood, and photographs that are significant to me all function as ways and means of bringing my world, as well as what’s in front of me, directly into my work.