I began painting interiors in college to remember my grandparent’s home after they passed away and their house had been sold. Since then, the vocabulary of my work has evolved, and I draw from imagination and reality. Recent pieces depict rooms, landscapes, and locations overrun by intrusive yet polite forms. The works are made using oil pastels, soft pastels, and oil paint. They abstract light and time, overlapping the comfort of familiarity with a changing present moment. Each painting has a palette of neutral tones with blues, greens, indigo, pinks, reds, and yellows that emphasize architectural planes. The practice of making the work is cyclical, and passed elements are reconfigured and used for the next series. This process mimics how memory works; re-catalogueing past events to meet current needs. Windows — their value both as a strong shape and as a visual metaphor for insight — are found in many of the works. Light is the guide that brings a sense of personality through the frame of the paintings into each articulated space. Although I haven’t been inside my grandparent’s former home in years, bits of their house’s floorplan continue to crop up, as I suspect they will for some time in my work.