“The Past is also part of the tissue, part of the present, but it looks somewhat out of focus. The Past is a constant accumulation of images, but our brain is not an ideal organ for constant retrospection and the best we can do is to pick out and try to retain those patches of rainbow light flitting through memory. The act of retention is the act of art, artistic selection, artistic blending, artistic re-combination of events. The bad memoirist re-touches his past, and the result is a blue-tinted or pink-shaded photograph taken by a stranger to console sentimental bereavement. The good memoirist, on the other hand, does his best to preserve the utmost truth of the detail. One of the ways he achieves his intent is to find the right spot on his canvas for placing the right patch of remembered color.”

--Vladimir Nabokov

My paintings evoke Brooklyn’s industrial past and future residential growth. The current body of work documents specific sites of building and decay in the present Williamsburg waterfront, surrounding areas of Greenpoint, and Red Hook, where construction cranes, glass and concrete structures rapidly supplant dilapidated warehouses and beaches of rubble, in anticipation of residential towers and public promenades. These paintings seek to document the transformations through a subdued palette and use of metallic pigments, balancing graphic sensibility with painterly animation. My work explores landscape as a memorial. As both physical fact and repository for collective memory, landscape becomes a work of the mind, the internal projection of an ethos onto a perception of external environment.