I am a diarist artist and I use my daily experiences as a jumping off point for discussing the world. Trouble at work? Let’s start there and make a drawing… In doing so I may deny art a pretension by handcuffing it to my little world, but that's the way it seems to work for me. It's my way of trying to channel the sublime and stop time.

I create a range of objects, from traditional paintings, to sharpie drawings, to 3-d paper constructions, to ceramic busts to hand-made coins. With each, my interest grows when disparate elements come into contact: either 2 characters in a painting, 2 sides of a coin, or a figure made from a ceramic head and a paper body.

My greatest asset in getting at narrative is line. In moving from abstraction to these humanist narratives I spent about 5 years tracing photos. That really taught me how to draw. Drawing gives these stories their humor, specificity and energy.

I love the chemical power of human interaction, and my favorite subjects are the most common: humor, hustle, married life, crazy babies, employment, coping, jealousy and trouble. Every piece I make involves a person, a human tale, and a collision of that dream vessel with the currents of living. My wonderful decade in New York taught me to drop all pretense of generalization and, rather, relish the explosion of specificity in the world seen everyday.

Time in the studio is time away from my family so big thanks to charlie, rosie and alex.