I keep returning to ordinary things: objects, animals, interiors, and the things we live with every day. I change their scale, color, and surroundings, and somewhere along the way they begin to feel like more than what they were made to be. A bowl, a bottle, or a car becomes a witness to the passage of time, a presence rather than a possession.

I am interested in what remains and what happens next: how things accumulate histories, absorb or ignore our attention, and continue to change long after their original purpose has faded. I want familiar things to carry the same emotional weight we usually reserve for people.

I work intuitively. I spend a lot of time looking, responding, changing things, and sometimes changing my mind. Certain objects, figures, and symbols keep finding their way back into the paintings. I don't always know why until much later. Each painting stands on its own, but for me they are also connected; things return, change, and become something else.