I use painting, drawing, and sculpture to create still lifes that seek to illuminate the overlooked. Like the first century B.C. painters of Pompeii whose trompe-l'oeil frescoes shifted the boundaries of fiction and pushed the physical limits of space, I use illusionistic techniques to move between degrees of representation. By simulating objects and things from our everyday environment and bending our perception of reality through time and space, I shine a light on overlooked objects, people, and narratives to provoke a consideration of what merits attention.

My current work, From My Studio in Giverny, is comprised of an easel with four painted and drawn objects: a 1990 exhibition catalog for the under recognized artist Lilla Cabot Perry, a scrap of wood, a vanishing portrait of Monet, and a photo of Perry. Accompanying this still life is a floor plan of Perry's former studio in Giverny, in which I worked, hand drawn "Xeroxes" of the catalog's first nine pages, and a simulated fragment of the north facing wall from my studio in Giverny.