Growing up in rural Kentucky has provided me a kinship with nature that inspires my work.  Just as my location serves as a muse, my vivid memory of childhood and adolescence influences my work and enables me to explore the human condition of growing up.  From childhood to adulthood, myths, stories, and adages lend richness to our visual language.  By combing these simple symbols, volumes can be condensed into one simple image. Combining images, distorting, or drawing upon personal life lessons of growing up and changing creates a subtle surrealism suiting the abstract concepts symbolized in my work. My aim is to both remind and commiserate with all those who experience joy and hardships in their personal growth and change.

In my body of work titled "Deciduous," the symbol of the tree is important for its representation of the strong yet delicate and ever changing element of humanity.  Trees have a rich history as a symbol for that which is changing, growing, nurturing, and yet vulnerable.  Still more complex is their meaning in modern society as a rural element frequently out of place in the urban landscape.  Like most individuals, I have my own superstitions and stories which find their way into my work.  Befitting the nature of subject matter, my work strives to be both curious and beautiful.