My paintings and drawings are concerned with the idea of an inherent conflict existing between binaries like the beautiful and the grotesque or the internal and the external. My interest in the subtle conflict generated by pairs of opposites developed in my drawings and is an idea I continue to pursue in paint. I am particularly curious about exploring the psychological state between attraction and repulsion. The subjects in my work, amalgams of form and sensation, are a way to investigate the moment of uncertainty that occurs when the mind seeks to evaluate disparate imagery within a form. By making hybrid images that blur the edges between humans, plants and animals, I call upon my continuing interest in the beautiful and the dark side of nature as a mirror of society. I intend for my work to provide a contradiction between an intuitive attraction to color, paint or graphite, and repulsion from bizarre form. By simultaneously employing these extremes, I create subtle conflict in my work and propose a sense of playfulness or of the grotesque.