Everything I do is driven by my childhood both growing up in a bi-racial household and by the influence of popular culture. As I grow older, the way I understand those images and memories is contextualized with a larger understanding of the world. Images that seemed innocent, familiar, or humorous as a child now take on more complicated and loaded significance through combinations of innocence, violence, humor, and emotion.

All of my work can be characterized as autobiographical, whether it is through portraiture from my childhood or through pop imagery that is both from a local context and through the larger media. In this way, the humor, the emotion, the juxtaposition of imagery gives the viewer the closest version of my thoughts as one can obtain. I am fascinated with what is hidden from view whether it is the inner subjectivity of an individual, the abstraction of perspective, or the unspoken messages inherent in popular culture. By focusing on what lies beneath in terms of the subject, the surface of the painting becomes a free space to explore how meaning is and can be constructed.