The process of expression in my paintings is visceral in the way of applying materials. Different unconventional materials are used such as household chemicals, wood stains, polyurethanes, organic matter (dead birds, bones, leaves, mud etc.), as well as found objects and various types of paint. The material and the movement of my hands guide me, manipulating the mediums with jagged rocks, knives, spatulas, and blow dryers. The process I use in creating conceptualizes the passage of things (raw material) from a chaotic, undetermined state to a determined, ordered state through the molding process of art making.

Meaning is generated through the metaphors relating to each material and found object used. Hair is used as a representation of genealogy. A family's impact on development of our person is significant, in that through inheritance of genes and the way in which one is brought up develops our behaviors. Dead birds signify a captured freedom, also serves as a warning sign of our finite nature. Straw indicates transcendence and alchemy. Mud serves as a fundamental material, pertaining to the idea that we were created from the earth and we are put back into the earth when we die.

I create work that revolves around expression of the human condition suggesting existentialist and metaphysical ideas of becoming, being, death and transcendence in this world specifically referencing German philosopher, Martin Heidegger. Heidegger coined the term 'Dasein' which literally means 'Being-there' through the study of the human being. By using the expression Dasein, Heidegger called attention to the fact that an individual human cannot be taken into account except by only being an existent in the middle of a world amongst other things. Dasein always finds itself already in a certain spiritual and material, historically conditioned environment. Through this preconditioned world we then must invent ourselves. Found objects and organic materials that are used in the paintings embody symbols that may help guide the soul to its ultimate destiny.

My paintings serve as imagery of destruction, assembled with debris and organic elements of nature. The resources used reference the cyclical nature of life, and progression. Almost every experience we have should be reflected upon as a modification of the primordial being, exploring the plasticity, malleability, and origins of transcendence of our existence. When confronted with the barren landscape there is a realization of temporality, and feels anxiety towards the ultimate truth, yet there is still hope for regeneration, life and rebirth.