The intent of my work is twofold.
First, I hope to initially attract and seduce the viewer with beautiful
beguiling surfaces and candy colors. The tone of the work is often at
first glance innocent and playful by the use of images of children from
old books dating from the 1920s to the 1990s, images from arcade games,
as well as the use of bright and sparkling color.

Second, upon further examination, as situations unfold and we have time
to read the ambiguities, the work that could initially be construed as
cloying and saccharine, instead inspire a sense of danger or dread. Rather
than being welcoming and nostalgic, the work suggests a repulsion and
unpleasantness beneath the alluring veneer. I hope to engage the questioning
of the viewer’s own nostalgia.

Potentially, my work is a reminder that beneath both the surfaces of
the painting and nostalgia lies experiences and images far more
complicated than what they initially appear. More complicated because
they are masked by conceptions of how we think these things should be
rather than how they have been experienced. In my work, I seek to
reintroduce the strangeness and complexity I associate with childhood.
In peeling back the surfaces, I want to reveal and address these issues
experienced in my own childhood and adulthood, as well as provide an
opportunity for others to reflect upon these similar issues in their own
lives and in the popular western culture at large.