My goal is to capture a moment in time through detailed observation and meditation. I painting is like a marathon in which I must push the painting as far as my skill and patience allows.

I view the potential of details in a work can build a suggestion of narrative for the subject and more convincingly document that can give a sense of time and place. I don’t pursue detail simply for the sake of detail for its own sake; rather its pursuit serves deeper aesthetic purposes.

Details are also a way to help make a painting interesting from any viewing distance. Certain painters — like Vermeer, and the Dutch Fijnschilder like Gerrit Dou of the 17th century,—  pursued such realism with this meticulous detail.
My hope is that this struggle will always lead to an interesting visual experience.