So, about construction equipment: excavators, cranes, etc. They're so intrinsically organic in form—excavators are these nasty reptilian monsters, cranes are huge, precarious insects with sharp, towering exoskeletons. I love these metaphors because I think they explore the truth about an evolving city: the urban landscape is constantly and violently changing in a brutal and animalistic way. Man-made environments reflect natural environments in that they both contain everyday dramas of birth and destruction. And I think it's all quite interesting if you pay attention.

My paintings in this show all revolve around the idea of a living city. Each one a living organism that millions of people inhabit. I always feel this way traveling on the subway, going down into the heart of the city through it's veins. The ideas for these pieces also comes from the beauty I find in dilapidated industrial structures where nature has begun roam freely around, to take back the space it once owned. The juxtaposition of growth and destruction.