To create my paintings I combine my photographs with redacted text, found images, ideas, colors and textures to create scenes that combine the concrete with abstraction. My sources for these elements include “outdated” elementary school textbooks, religious texts, television screenshots, constitutional law commentaries, flags, stencils, puzzle pieces, technology magazines, grocery lists, self-help books, Lightness, math textbooks, advertisments, art magazines, newspapers, philosophical texts, board game instructions, redaction, card games, obfuscation, the Western canon, incompleteness, post-structuralism, metadata, European medieval architecture, illuminated manuscripts, neo-expressionism and New York School poetry and painting.
Thematically, my work uses the aforementioned to compare, contrast and conflate images of historically underrepresented contributors to Western civilization in the past and present.