I cannot say my paintings are joined or are linked in any way apart from each one being figurative. There is no consistent or specific visual language that has been developed. Each painting exists on its own terms and is completely different then the one before it and the one after it. Each painting is usually based around two or three pages of writing that inform a specific moment that is then painted. Within each moment there is a deeper meaning and feeling embedded in each painting; however, there is no message or philosophical point I am trying to get across. My paintings are just paintings that have forgone the obligation to mean anything at all. In a sense I would really need to write an artist statement for each painting, and this generalized statement is as close as I can get to describing my work as a whole, without going into the specifics and describing each work individually.