My work analyzes issues of today while re-contextualizing and relating them to universal problems that transcend the digital and/or knowledge age. Each painting explores themes such as vitality, death, love, and emotional struggle through a range of imagery and style. I relate my own experience to a specific point of struggle and expand upon it using figurative painting, abstraction, text, and brand stamps/logos. The act of exploring these issues through painting becomes a meditative process, where I gain mental clarity  on the topic by embracing the fluid and inconsequential nature of the medium. The way in which my subjects are painted along with abstracted scenic backgrounds, and reference to both consumerist culture and industry act as a vehicle for the viewer to interpret each painting in terms of their own life and experience.