Within the frameworks of each painting lies a bed of stale, frozen memories that are disrupted with the stroke and splash of hyper-color. With a concentration in water-based media, I am greatly intrigued by the conglomerate of translucent layers. Each painting uses multiple layers and each layer serves as a mark of transparent information. The images used within each are extracted from a personal stock of family photos. The imagery is very personal to me but it can be viewed as being very generic and iconic to the average viewer. The paint melts with the black and white, creating multiple relationships and expressions within the boundaries of the frame. The elements are applied to the paper as enemies but throughout the process they begin to mingle and mimic one another. The image begins to replicate the motion of a stroke and the paper becomes the paint and vice versa. As the eye connects the elements within the space the figures emerge. Each piece starts out as a clash of expression but soon evolves into a fresh painting that is frozen in time just like memories embedded into the original photographs.