Over the past few years, I have been working on paintings influenced by my immediate surroundings in Cleveland and my general feeling of helplessness while keeping up with local and world events, both great and (mostly) terrible. Feeling a small, useless painter, I created an alternate world that I can menace with difficulties, while simultaneously trying my best to stick it back together and rebuild communities and connections. In my work, I am interested in storytelling, cause and effect, mistake making, finding solutions, what-ifs and the everyday. I am fascinated by the resilience of life. Every disaster is followed by rebirth, where we try to cobble together a Plan B out of what remains. My paintings celebrate this fascination and my love of the urban landscape and its creatures.