The first step in my process is always formal: I become interested in the aesthetic merging of shapes, lines and colors. I begin with a rough outline of a composition, then develops details over multiple layers. As images evolve, the initial composition becomes infused with my emotional and intellectual perspective. Looking at older work, I can recognize the issues that were central to my life at the time it was made. 

In 2020 I set out to create a series of paintings that would focus on a single theme: the way I imagines my own afterlife. The series is still in progress, but my conception of an afterlife has broadened to include transcendent cognitive experiences in my current terrestrial life. 

In some pieces I try illustrates my conceptualization the dissolution, or absence, of my own ego, as a way of imagining my non-existence. Other pieces explore the way I have experienced visual reality when my ego was too broken to effectively organize perceptions. Every now and then, I indulge my life-long interest in nature and pure landscape.

Recurring themes in my work include transcendence, regeneration, and growth. I am also interested in examining the tension between freedom and constraint.