I use traditional painting materials in nontraditional ways. Ambiguous shapes lure a viewer to be voyeuristic; things hidden behind skins of paint and canvas offer an invitation and reward for looking. This act of discovery leads to questions of time and meaning. The rhythmic passing of time is analogous to the steady stitching of translucent paint-skins. This concealment acts as a layer of meaning that distorts what lies behind it.These layers of meaning build upon each other over time, as with the physical material in the work. As this complexity grows, categories blur and things can simultaneously become everything and nothing. An attempt to name or categorize my work ultimately reduces it to something it is not. This resistance to definition allows for it to exist as itself. It can be described but will never sit nicely in a single box, always seeping into gray areas.