The notion of surveillance permeates my work. In a time where watching and being watched has become the norm, the act of seeing is a double-edged sword.  We are both witness and participant, voyeur and exhibitionist forever caught in the loop of our screens. My paintings implicate looking as a predatory act - both hunter and hunted, predator and prey.

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The paintings employ visual metaphors such as netting, binoculars, and legs rushing up receding steps. Utilitarian patterns, such as plywood and artificial wood grain painted in saturated jewel tones, act as camouflage to flatten and disorient the pictorial space. Legs rush up receding steps captured forever in a cinematic frame. Binoculars are seen from both sides of the lens - confusing the roles of watcher and the one being watched.

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The images become a feedback loop with no escape where surveilling and being surveilled are constant, ubiquitous, and universal.