The work in the gallery of mixed media paintings is based on images that I collect at playgrounds or other gathering places of young people. It is here that children move and interact with uncensored body language. Their emotions are raw and real. My source collecting, then, is a bit of visual eavesdropping. I watch for nonverbal language that I respond intuitively to. The connection to my own personal history reveals itself as the drawing unfolds. Most of this work was done during a time of personal crisis, hence there is a sense of desperation that infuses the images. The titles facilitate this connection to my own life experiences. I strive to include just enough visual cues to let loose subconscious emotion and association, and to portray a suggestion of a narrative that remains general in its possibilities. .

The melodrama of girlhood and its multi faceted manifestations are reflected in the charcoal figurative drawings. My images offer a chance encounter with the intimacy of the individual at any moment in time. The poses are often uncomfortably confrontational, reflecting the teenage angst experienced by so many young girls. Conformity collides with a need to feel unique and different in some special way. I strive to deliver a cryptic narrative to allow for a contradiction of intent, these girls all portray a certain strength of identity while still being seemingly very vulnerable. The space is purposely ambiguous, without specificity or reference. This allows for a timelessness for the viewer: one in which creates the question of the one’s place in the narrative; solely as an observer, or perhaps as a participant drawing upon personal experiences and expectations.