I am an expressionist painter at heart; however, I have attempted to transform the overt painterly gestures that symbolize this practice and re-contextualize its painterly language into new more personal forms. In order to do this I have had to reinvent myself as a painter. I have attempted to build an entire new painting language that can investigate the duality of outer and inner worlds, the simultaneity of abstraction and representation, and the physical space of painting.

Conceptually, the work explores how the affect of entertainment content depicting sexual norms, stereotypes, and sexual roles have a profound influence on our perceptions about sex and body image. The work is a social commentary about our media-manipulated society which has constructed a culture of sexual exploitation and commodification that leads figuratively and literally to death by a thousand diseases.