My paintings are abstract and botanical-ish. I want people to feel like the moment in “Where the Wild Things Are” when Max’s bedroom becomes a forest. I paint on human-sized canvases so that there is enough room for all the things—marks, opaque patches of acrylic color bumping up against translucent fields, drawn lines, scrapes, smudges, and smears. Pulling visual elements from real life keeps the work fresh, bold and generates a strangely-recognizable weirdness.