I’m painting images that compel me; subjects that resonate with me long after my first strong reaction to seeing them. Recently, the painting process is becoming much more personal; I’m editing and challenging the source material. The documentation of a subject is evolving into the re-inventing of an image. Painting from found photographs has become an excavation through multiple layers of meaning and interpretation which have been projected from my own experiences. My hope is to begin a painting in the same position that each viewer will eventually come to it – as a mystery to be unraveled.