In my work, I’m conscious of time’s paradoxes — how what we’ve lost can exist so solidly in the present, while the present itself feels like it’s dissolving around us, a quantum thing designed to elude us. I chase these contradictions in my paintings. Working in acrylic and collage on, primarily, wood panel, I alternately build and deface layers to develop a history. Material recovered from earlier layers lurks beneath the surface, like something half-remembered. Along the way, some element in the work will beckon, suggest a compositional way forward. Moving back and forth between intention and chance, the linear and the circular, I try to land the work in a place where hope and decay converge.