I primarily work in oil paint on wooden panels, creating portraits and still-lifes of the people and objects that make up my everyday life. Through these paintings, I preserve and emphasize the personal significance of subjects that might otherwise be overlooked. I am interested in the beauty of the familiar—the people, objects, and moments that can become so ordinary that we risk taking them for granted.

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My work explores how perception shifts across time and space. Using both candid and posed photographs as source material, I combine realistic representation with abstract elements. One aspect of a subject is rendered in a fully realized, naturalistic style, while colorful painted lines suggest other angles, positions, or moments. These shifting forms emphasize the subject while acknowledging that there is never only one way to see, understand, or experience a person or object. In my portraits, these multiple perspectives can also reflect the layered and changing mental states of the subject.

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As an avid consumer of pop culture, I am also interested in the ways people and ideas become popular. My work considers what captures the public's attention and what media portrayals reveal about our values and identities as individuals and as a society. By combining personal observation with references to the broader cultural, I examine the relationship between the intimate and the collective and how the things we encounter every day can reflect something larger about the world around us.