While walking in the neighborhood of my former studio I stopped to admire the buildings built in the early decades of the 20th century. These paintings serve as visual signposts to this neighborhood and those vaguely remembered from my childhood. As a way of memorializing the landscape, I have chosen to paint the bones of these structures, those that once existed, and those simply imagined. My intention was not to paint these buildings and apartments literally, but rather to re-fashion them as if formed from their original slabs and chunks of stone and timber.

I’ve always felt that the random physical elements we stumble upon in our day-to-day lives serve up a delightedly intrinsic elegance. Debris piled by the side of the freeway, accidental designs created by tumbled blocks of stone, giant boulders isolated by time and space; these encounters often seem imbued with an anthropomorphic spark and a distinct narrative of their own.