Home is Home, and everything else is Not Home.  

 I am interested in creating work that deals with documentation in both a historical and invented way. My paintings are constructed by combining my own memories with family photographs and found imagery. From a young age, I attended a yearly camping trip in California. Those memories are a reoccurring theme in my recent works, as I discovered that this vacation was the constant in my childhood as opposed to a childhood home. For me, no space is a fixed space and while I have an intimate understanding of the American landscape, I consider no place “home”. As I work through my paradoxical definition of home being both secure and unstable, I allow memory and emotion to alter the accuracy of my personal recollections. Unnatural color schemes keep the paintings on the verge of sentimentality, allowing me to communicate my frustrating disconnect from these spaces. Through exploration of landscape in a nostalgic way, I search for the links between identity and nativity.