Weird West (Current)
My work is shaped by the landscapes of the American Southwest, where land, memory, and spirit often feel closely connected. I paint animals—horses, bulls, and coyotes—moving through symbolic desert spaces as stand-ins for emotional and spiritual states. Rather than functioning as portraits, these figures represent memory, and transformation.
The desert appears in my work as both setting and collaborator. Its expansive, flattened spaces rendered in vibrant, saturated color creates a sense of quiet intensity, while surreal elements such as electric outlines, flashes of lightning, and symbolic objects suggest moments when the physical and metaphysical begin to overlap. These moments suggest, connection across time, distance, and memory.
After the death of my father in 2020, my work began to engage more directly with grief and remembrance. Over time, what emerged from loss has softened into an ongoing consideration of connection and continuity. Through these paintings, I think about how memory lives within the landscape, and how spirit can remain present even in absence.
