My work draws from family photographs, everyday life, and art historical references to explore the complex nuances between people’s interactions within their own levels of consciousness and throughout their surrounding environments. I use memory to create pieces that straddle temporalities and paint as a medium whose dexterity helps the subject matter achieve its range of effects and evoke the fluidity of honest, turbulent emotion. Dynamics of intimacy emerge in my work as the painted figures, flowers, and spaces simultaneously induce, interrupt, obstruct, bridge, and erase traditional lines of demarcation between race and color, time and dimension, subject and viewer, moment to moment, and questions of belonging.