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I grew up in the country and the city, in North America and in Europe, and I have witnessed massive transformation. Airports, harbours, and other points of entry hold a particular fascination for me. As much as architecture and the city dominates my work, what I am trying to capture is not a fixed place and time so much as the flux of people, ideas, and goods in movement. My paintings strive to position the city in the larger context of nature, since almost every city was founded by water, in the midst of ample farmland, or in a strategic high point – nature shapes our ambitions. There is perhaps something utopian in my work, but I seek to excavate our recent history to find a way forward.
Painting is my way of remembering and interpreting beauty and destruction. I begin by viewing reality as composed of layers of colour and shape, observing the way light reflects off an object, and the tension objects generate when placed next to or on top of each other.