My paintings explore the gamut of emotional experience available through the state of solitude. Particularly, my work calls attention to our intimate relationship with place. We experience our physical surroundings on multiple levels; sensory impressions define their look, smell, and feel, but we are affected by our environments on a deeper level through less explicable pathways. For me, the line between physical and psychological space becomes blurred as we internalize the places of our lives and they begin to inform our identities, much as do our most formative relationships with people. I aim to evoke feelings of connectedness in the viewer, both by recalling their own personal experiences, and by highlighting our common human condition.