I focus on themes of domestic and global violence. The media I select and mix with traditional ones are fraught with difficult associations. Manipulating these remnants and rendering them inert as art media, are actions that underscore my interest and life-long support of anti-violence movements. I strive to transform them into a critical mechanism. 

My abstract “landscapes” are on archival papers where I incorporate inert gunpowder residues, watercolors and often acrylics through a two-part pouring and painting process. I choose to work with gunpowder for its associations, but also for its tonal qualities, including the depth of grey it provides as first discovered by American artist Ed Ruscha. 

I view my pouring as echoing the active and physical work of well-known Washingtonian Color Field artists, Morris Louis and Sam Gilliam. The second part of my process is far less physical and involves defining forms and images on a drafting table using reductive and additional manipulations.

In my most recent works, I have begun inserting depictions of flora such as olive branches or poppies into my work as symbolic references and counterpoints. I produce these often chaotic amalgams to reflect the contemporary moment.