My paintings embrace the chaos and regularity, the calm entropy that pushes and pulls the world around us. By layering paint, old events are covered up, and sometimes rediscovered through transparency or scratch-throughs. The painting builds its own history, allowing viewers to discover many stories with it. While I avoid direct representation, the landscape is sometimes apparent. The natural world affects much of what I do. I often grab colors, forms and other influences from nature, but the marks I make are more reaction to that than representation.