I believe that architectural structures acting as both repositories and as vehicles for memory profoundly influence culture and identity by providing a tangible framework through which facets of a society can be expressed. Consequently, I have been inspired to build a body of work dealing with how identity is influenced by the types of architectural edifices present in a given landscape. My work is not merely a method of documentation, but a sociopolitical/socioeconomic commentary on the effects of hubris, avarice, free trade, outsourcing, deregulation, deterritorialization, neoliberalism, obsolescence, and international-finance-capital upon communities throughout the world. Within the realm of Jacques Derrida’s theory of Hauntology, the paintings speak of the slow disintegration of the future, and the abysmal fragmentation of the past.

“Beauty is never so affecting as when it is about to disappear.”

“...melancholy is a fearful gift. What is it but the telescope of truth.”-Lord Byron

“While relative dangers have a “first and last name,” absolute dangerousness has no exact face and no unambiguous content.” -Paolo Virno

“Consensus is not the criteria for truth or justice.”-Noam Chomsky

“A specter, is always revenant. One cannot control its comings and goings because it begins by coming back.” -Jacques Derrida

“Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?”-Elias Canetti

“Memory is not an instrument for the past but its theater...He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.”-Walter Benjamin

“All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.”-Guy Debord

“The biggest illusion of the Human Mind is probably the one on which the Man has built himself: the idea that he invents something, when all he does is repair.”-Kader Attia

“There is no surer way to corrupt a society than to cut the connection between effort and reward.” -James Maynard Keynes

“architecture’s symbolic power is neither inherent nor purely conventional, but rather accrued through the daily interactions through which spaces lodge themselves in our minds”-Julian Rose

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”-Upton Sinclair

“there are no facts, only interpretations”-Friedrich Nietzche

“...too many of us now seem to worship self indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.”-Jimmy Carter

“We think we no longer love the dead because we don’t remember them, but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.”-Marcel Proust

“...a pocket watch from Besancon, a baptism medal, and two fingers (forefinger and middle finger, still attached to each other) landed on the knees after the explosion of a torpedo in the embankment, and that he didn’t know what saddened him more, the flesh of the two objects, infinitely more human, in the midst of the butchery, than the simple bloody knuckles.” -Mathias Enard

“Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.”-William James

“I have felt the wind of the wing of madness.”-Charles Baudelaire

“All that is solid, melts into air.”-Karl Marx

“The perspectives opening into the depth of the day seem like the archive of the calendar, the cross section of days, the endless files of time, floating in tiers into a bright eternity.”-Bruno Schulz

“...the anxiety of decline feeds an enormous appetite for ruin imagery. But it matters whether we understand ruination as historically inevitable, the fault of its own victims, or as the result of industrial disinvestment and capitalist globalization.”-Dora Apel