I am interested in exploring the figure particularly in the context of isolation and longing. A sort of social dislocation. A hesitant yet insistent attempt to connect to something that lies beyond reach.

I like the idea of the porch as an in-between, transitional space--neither inside nor outside. A place of ambivalence. The porches in these paintings are not meant to be real places, however, but rather reflections of an inner life or state of consciousness. They are places of psychological experience. In spite of this, I want the figures to feel like very physical presences, aware of their separateness in a very physical way.

My work is about self-consciousness, and the self-consciousness of relationships--here specifically the self-consciousness of relationships between men. It is about the co-existence of desire and doubt, longing and reticence, intimacy and uncertainty. It is about absence as much as presence.