The imagination is a powerful tool and seldom do we reach our full potential in using it. The ever-present feeling that there is something happening within and around us that seems to be outside the conscious and logical realm is a notion that interests me. This body of work focuses on capturing a feeling of being on the edge of what is real while entertaining the idea of the unconscious mind physically spilling out into the world around us. Déja vu, the spaces between sleep and our conscious lives, as well as the everyday strange occurrences in which we see something that is not there; these are concepts I combine in this series of abstract paintings. My paintings convey the feeling we get when something passes our periphery and, when turning to look, nothing can be found. In one sense they can be thought of as landscapes, in another, mindscapes.

The drawings are an effort to capture similar motifs in a representational manner and also a way to illustrate my fascination with nature.

03/2011