Painting is a means of self-discovery; the reason I'm drawn to a particular image or theme can only be revealed through the act of making. Painting is an attempt to bring order, purpose, and understanding to a myriad of thoughts, feelings, experiences and beliefs. Like an image in murky water, blindly swimming toward it, each painting leads me closer, bringing it into focus, whatever It is….I don’t know and I know, it’s familiar and unfamiliar, scary and safe, all coexisting together. All these juxtapositions contribute to a paintings mystery. After all, this constant flux of duality is the very essence of creation.