"I want to use the cultural icons in my life to have spiritual conversations and I want fiction and fables to become illustrations of real truth. Using a language of iconography with everything I represent, allows me to see a subject as I imagine God might see them. Constant tactile exlporation stems out of my belief that 'if it is worth looking at, it is worth touching'. While balancing this dialogue between material and subject matter, I am installing synapses between texture and figurative gesture, between color and facial countenance. The surreal environments of my paintings become a more intuitive and satisfying way for me to describe an