By retaining a dialogue with the natural world in my art making practice and by providing aesthetic experiences similar to the explorative, imaginative, experience of my youth, I am provided the headspace to investigate what the natural world is and how I behave inside of it.  I then make art works in relation to these thoughts. Life cycles of plants, animals, and objects with an emphasis on decay is a particularly fruitful area of study for me.  I am interested in what is considered natural and what is artificial and how I see those percentages changing and how these changing percentages speed up or slow down this process of decay.  From information offered through illusion via a painting, to a cactus planted in a year-old hamburger, each of my pieces requires a different process of discovery for the viewer to get to something new; to the point of reception.