Contradiction is the foundation of my figurative art. The work is composed of carefully choreographed human bodies on a ground purged of contextualizing marks. By treating these bodies formally as collaged elements rather than as human individuals, I transform them from people into symbols of people. In this way, a subtle violence comes into my work, and I am able to explore the binary oppositions seduction/repulsion, intimacy/depersonalization, and heaven/earth.

      An important part of the human condition is a desire for resolution, for a way to put the incongruities of life into order. Despite our efforts, sometimes the closer we seem to approach a conclusion, the more elusive it proves. Yet our perception is left a little richer for the struggle. That situation is what I explore in my work. I am not comfortable with my art. I am too keenly aware of the contradictions inserted below its painstakingly refined surface, and of my struggle to understand them. It challenges, defies, and troubles me. And that is why I make it.