My paintings are imagined escape strategies for the natural world.

Forms based on cartoon characters take on the protective coloration of patterns. They co-opt the use of grids and stripes, performing a kind of jujitsu on the elements that seek to control them. Ultimately, they become goofy believers in the possibility of re-creation.

Their resiliency in the face of daunting odds gives me hope. Perhaps the strategy of reinvention as survival mechanism can work for us. Maybe we too can defy the laws of physics and logic and reinvent ourselves. We can realize our own attempts to control chaos are futile: we can only acknowledge limiting structures, transform them, and make them our own.