Artist Statement: The quiet austerity of these compositions records the touch of half alive textures, the comfort of the imperfect physical world. Velvety decadent material and alluring chroma upon close inspection reveal pores, bruises, wilts, asymmetrical clefts, surprising in today's world of glossed, filtered and algorithmically perfected faces and monoculture produce. Neither nature morte nor momento mori, the artist's composing of the scene within an explicit frame harmonizes processes of order and disorder, assembly and dispersal. You might want to freeze time at its most perfect or you might declare this moment perfect.