I am interested in the relationship between desire and necessity, the clashing of the ideal and the actual. The recent work consists of paintings that use the whimsical vernacular of pop culture within the context of Modernist abstraction. Superimposed patterns intersect and create both serendipitous moments of harmony and areas of contradiction, where the patterns are out of sync, creating tension. The colors used function formally, but are also socially ubiquitous. They are the colors of advertisements and product design. The process is precise and methodical, but the compositions are improvised and often seem awkward and unresolved. To me this lack of resolution is interesting in its open-endedness. The work is ironic in a sense, but it is not cynical. It is a celebration of the human within the rational.