I am interested in presenting realistically rendered unpeopled environments that simultaneously encourage and undermine expectations of what we perceive as real. I warp perspective and shift perceptions by utilizing overlays of digitally altered renditions of the same scene. I illuminate sections of the space while simultaneously confusing the viewer’s apprehension of the relationships within the space. The paintings present what appears to be a factual image but which is in reality a confounding fiction, leaving one with a sense of dislocation and a sense of ambiguity about what is real and what is not. a real place, realistically rendered, but on the verge of abstraction.

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