I paint figures into landscapes where personal memory and historical time collapse into one another. These people move through the world without arriving at a fixed destination, defined by remembrance and endurance rather than triumph. Increasingly I am less interested in the interior condition of the figure than in the relationship between the figure and the world they inhabit. My figures are made of the same substance as their surroundings, dissolving into architecture, atmosphere, and light. They are not separate from the world but constituted by it, and it by them, which is the deepest truth I know about how a person exists in time and memory.

I am pursuing a specific luminosity, a glow that emerges when figure and landscape achieve genuine equality, neither subordinating the other, both generated by the same painterly impulse. The painting is finished not when everything is answered but when it comes alive.