Inspired by travels through metropolitan areas and local commercial districts, including my own Winter Park, Park Avenue, this work aims to highlight the beautiful unification of space that maintains a façade of controlled seamlessness that belies any difficulties or human emotion.

I create a balance between the abstract and the representational, hovering between both in order to create tension between the recognizable and the generic or in my view the human versus the system. Painting in a hard-edged modernist style with impersonal blocks of colors, or co-opting pre-existing government charts to systematize my walk along Park Avenue, I de-personalize yet allow remnants of identifiable landmarks to shine through. In doing so, I have attempted to capture the fragmentation of space that occurs as we navigate through repetitious urban environments where there is a pressure to participate in life, less as an individual and more as a consumer. By offering occasional fleeting information that provides the sense of place and human element that one longs for, I pull back from the formal to pose that the human factor can never be stamped out, no matter how often it is quantified.