In a culture that is concerned with the value and significance of material objects to construct a vision the of self, it is my opinion that the most important of those objects is the one in which we dwell. For me, domestic spaces are sites that distort the self in such a fashion as to show the most important truths about our fears, desires and unavoidable realities. I present in my paintings a vision of the domestic whose occupant is the viewer; distant, aloof and curiously engaged in a process of deciphering meaning from seemingly arbitrary arrangement of symbols and relics. In this vision, I want the viewer to respond emotionally to the alarming isolation and molestation of the most intimate and familiar of objects, the home.