Artist Statement

This series which I've started back in 1999 and spans almost 20 years in the making explores both the familiar and mundane through the shifting lenses of time, space, history, and aspiration. Travel (especially by car) is one of the most common experiences we share. For many, it’s tedious. For me, it’s a metaphor that never stops unfolding. There’s something profound about having left one place and heading toward another, all while the present moment slips past in a blur, just outside our focus. It mirrors life and the fleetingness of now.

On long drives, especially through deserts and plains, light and landscape converge to form what I think of as a 'drishti', a focal point that invites a kind of transcendent awareness. In those moments, the past, present, and future seem to collapse into one. The illusion of linear time falls away, revealing a sliver of the pure presence of now.

For me, the act of making art is much like this experience. I’m drawn to that same sliver between idea and execution, where instinct takes over and wonder lives. I’m not simply chasing a finished piece, but searching for something raw and vital within the process itself. My hope is that these works offer a pause, a moment for reflection, perspective, and perhaps even comfort in the routine rhythms of daily life. That they prompt viewers to consider where they stand in the flow of time, suspended between memory and anticipation.

Alongside this series is a companion body of work that shifts the focus away from the driver's path and toward what drifts by in the periphery. These pieces are painted in oil over acrylic or latex, and sometimes purely in acrylic. I work on both found objects and hand-stretched canvas, following wherever the materials and moments take me.

“I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified.” ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues