“My industrial paintings weave between factual spaces rooted in disappearing landscapes and abstractions of color and pattern. I make small marks in layers over time. This is how I create the work; a slow ritual of piecing together, similar to constructing a quilt. My hands don’t function well, but I make the marks and do the repairs just the same.

All of the industrial sites I explore have gone through changing functions and evolving industries over time. I’ve photographed them for years, saving thousands of details and references for my own documentation. The construction rarely has an aesthetic driver. Buildings adapt and evolve. The changes are always practical to solve a problem. There’s an abstraction that occurs as the structures get modified by use and purpose. I’m interested in that story of the evolving landscape over time, knowing there are real people and a specific history that goes with each piece and finding out what that is through the work. My Post-Precisionist pieces celebrate what is often now largely gone. Many of these buildings are disappearing. I work as quickly as I can before they come down. I paint them to show what happened in this place and as proof of our time, knowing that everything is temporary.”