I paint from photographs. Occasionally, I work from life. The landscapes are an attempt to understand a place in history. Sometimes the broad sweep of history, and sometimes a fleeting moment, but usually both. I’m interested in spaces that include interior and exterior, have some ambiguity, and an emotional component. The emotional aspect of an image, which is what directs me to a scene or a photo in the first place, is probably the most important part of the painting, but at the same time the most difficult part to describe or even understand, and the easiest to lose track of along the way. The work always begins with an exciting image/idea: “This will be the best image ever!” Sometimes the image/idea/emotion gets lost as I paint and the painting dies. Sometimes a part of that early excitation remains, and the painting lives as a kind of record/pointer/sign/shorthand/evidence/reminder of that failure. 151 words.