My work is a fusion of fact and fiction with landscape as a primary subject. The picture plane starts with a photograph which is drawn and painted on with a variety of mediums - gouache, pastels, colored pencils. The images are not always in focus and the drawing is bold and textured, which is in opposition to what these mediums are usually employed to do. This framework offers the viewer a choice of seeing the work of the hand or of the camera image -- or toggle between the two.

     The condition of myopia, also known as nearsightedness, is also referenced here as the work navigates a space between markmaking on a surface and the layer of focus in a photograph. I intentionally leave areas of the work unaltered as the drawn and painted patterns over the single photographic image fuse into a game of choice for the viewer. Other areas are abstracted with color and line. The altered image is usually identified as a botanical drawing, but it is a hybrid in both worlds, neither a traditional landscape image nor an independent drawing.