Like a Walk in the Park

My narrative landscapes exist on two planes: real and surreal. Using light, color, and perspective to bend time and reality, the work encourages viewers to question their environment. Examining personal and collective anxieties around climate change, historical land use, and tensions in public versus private space, the paintings are unfixed and appear to shift over time. My studio practice examines how a place contains our collective experiences and histories. Layered with happiness, trauma, and inequity, public spaces function as mirrors of our present emotions and energies. Through investigating various viewpoints--historical, personal, and imagined--we create empathy within our ever-changing world. The last 12 months have unleashed a cacophony of emotions: unique, collective, terrible, sad, at times joyful and new. The fabric of our social lives is being re-worked, our lived-in spaces are being re-imagined. These paintings are derived from my experiences within the social and physical landscape of Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and other cities. The way we as a community move through and experience environments is at the base of my practice.