Loss (Ruins) series: 

           

     What I know best, and what China gave me before leaving, is the gift of painting.  Being an artist has become integral to whom I am, and through the act of painting, I have the luxury and pain of searching the memories, experiences, and history that China provided.   Recently returning to China, I was really shaken by how the continuous “destruction and construction” is a loss of the beautiful through industrial pollution, cultural pollution and spiritual pollution.  These paintings and the process of developing them, the “stories” they tell, are reflective of deep personal investigations that collapse the past with the present, and ultimately become records of Loss.