"Seeing the entire world as a foreign land makes possible the originality of vision. Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of at least two, and this plurality of vision gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous dimensions, an awareness that — to borrow a phrase from music — is contrapuntal. For an exile, habits of life, expression or activity in the new environment inevitably occur against the memory of those things in another environment. Thus both the new and the old environments are vivid, actual, occurring together contrapuntally."
— Edward Said, On Exile

y work explores memory: its primary source is the classical practice of expanding one's mnemonic capacity through the process of intense visualization of events or objects in imaginary architectural settings. Recently, I have incorporated references to history, war and tenuous relationship of conscience, memory and national identity into my work. Intricately layered, composite images reflect the fragmented, complicated natures of both memory and contemporary living experience.