Much like a face, the city is composed of elements that give it character and uniqueness. I create my paintings with the city in mind, but rather than depicting specific objects such as a house, a park or a church, I express my architectural intention by borrowing and appropriating sites, places and names, to create a composition that alludes to city life. I am continually drawn to buildings or sites under construction, finding balance and rhythm in their geometric supporting structures.
Visual impressions made up on me by these sites become memories; after-images that resonate in my mind until they are finally expressed onto a canvas. In my attempt to arrive at the purest expression of their pattern I often describe them in high contrast, and color has gradually taken on a secondary role.
I take the structures out of their proposed context, decompose and reintroduce them, thus distorting their original functionality. This process of decomposition is

crucial to my work and it represents one of a city’s foremost characteristics which is activity. After all, a city is never static or complete.
Seeking out this fragmented reality of a city hidden behind it’s beautiful facades is very important to me and in an act of reverse archaeology I find the skeletons of my subjects before they are brought to life.