Medium_Oil on canvas 

Size_48” X 36”

Year_2025

“This painting explores the quiet persistence of forgotten icons. The stillness of a winter night--the kind where the cold bites through your wool gloves, and the only sound is the muffled crunch of snow beneath worn Bean Boots--suspends the scene like a kind of still-life. A distant 24-hour 7-Eleven casts a dim glow on a graffiti-covered Ford, tagged by kids who probably stopped coming around years ago. Nearby: a faded Blockbuster sign half-swallowed by weeds, a broken shopping cart, scattered bottles and trash. Each object is a fragment of cultural residue, relics we never meant to memorialize but did anyways. The work sets nostalgia against decay, re-framing these remnants not as monuments, but as fragile signposts of a past slipping quietly away. It invites us to consider what we choose to remember, and what we leave behind in the relentless march of time.

I work primarily in realism, and am interested in the concepts of solitude, liminality, nostalgia, and the sublime.

In my work, I paint scenes that reinterpret my personal experiences and the people and places I’ve encountered. I strive to blur the boundary between the observer and the observed. The most intriguing aspect of painting is the potential to position the viewer in front of a window, allowing them to glance into a world that evokes joy or sorrow or an inexplicable nostalgia for a place they’ve never been before. These emotions probe the subtleties of our shared human experiences, and are my motivation for making art.”