My paintings all begin with the laying down of a basic, hand drawn grid. This preliminary grid is both a matter-of-fact reiteration of the canvas’s flat expanse and an idealistic referent to an imagined and unseen reality existing congruent to the one I live and breathe each day. Once a grid is set down, I paint to obscure, wreck, disassemble, reiterate, build off of, embellish and reinvent the initial layer. The process of painting becomes an exercise in turning the simplicity of the original visual structure into a new and unexpected version of itself—one that is often illogical in pattern, loudly colorful, deeply hand made and at times, profligate.