My work transforms the contemporary American vernacular landscape into a fantastic imaginary place.  The resulting images, filtered through my imagination, portray a world that is a mix of the absurd, bleak, fabulous and nostalgic. They are a re-configuration of the built landscape I know, using photographs I’ve taken around the area I live in as source material. Selected views and details from the photographs are combined together to make monumental or panoramic watercolor drawings on paper. These drawings are an exploration of the idea of the sublime applied to the contemporary built landscape.

The tonal range of my work exists between a beautiful dreamlike environment at one end, and a claustrophobic dystopian landscape at the other. Within the drawings are details that are beautiful or awkward, unfamiliar or banal, complex and ordered, or random and chaotic, all blended together to form an imagined landscape. It is an imaginary, often gravity-less sort of landscape, with symmetry occasionally appearing as an element of order within a panorama of randomness. 

The drawings are aesthetic experiments with language, geometry, linear perspective, and the illusion of depth, and they function as visual puzzles. Everyday commercial signs are transformed into an unknown, unintelligible language. Details from a mundane shopping strip become a fantastic landscape of undefined purpose. Undefined, and therefore open to possibility and imagination.