2003 - My recent paintings reflect an interest in combining two opposing experiences: On the one hand, the solid, aging walls that make up our cities and on the other hand, the wide open spaces and skies of the countryside. My work explores the beauty of the deteriorating walls found in downtown alleys and parking lots. In those same walls I search for visions or memories of landscapes: Cracks or borders that can be seen as horizons; stains that can be seen as turbulent skies. In weathered concrete surfaces I find images of storms, clouds, rain, or ice. As landscapes, the paintings are abstract in quality. As paintings of wall surfaces, they embrace realism. A painting in which one can become immersed, can at the same time focus attention on the impenetrable surface. Depth and vastness is experienced simultaneously with the awareness of the distressed and textured surface.