My work is the result of a continuing struggle to establish a sense of place in a world where meaning shifts and memory fails. I am inspired by specific environments and objects, but am most interested in the dissonance between presumed meanings or associations, and the actual experience of a thing or place.  My paintings work as dreams do, with imagery that is familiar and ostensibly identifiable, and where poetical substance lies in intimations neglected or unseen.  I search for beauty and humor in these landscapes of tangled etymology, but often anxiety and disquiet is exposed.