Lately, I have found myself stricken by the stark elegance of skeletal trees, birds on a wire, a broken bit of fence. Such sweetly isolated events evoke in me a sense of loneliness and admiration, a sense of isolation and awe, as I go about my daily commutes and meanderings. I isolate these elements from their surroundings in my recent paintings, often reducing specifics of environment to a delicate silhouette. As I pare my objects of interest down to their barest elements, I seek to draw the viewer into an acute awareness of the mundane’s faculty to amaze, the sense of wonder lurking behind the banal.