My paintings employ personal myths, reinterpretations of history, and investigation of cultural assigned roles to create narratives that are unbound by time. Flattening linear time into an ever present now recognizes the interrelated nature of our society. We form relationships through a checklist of culturally assigned concepts of value, re-evaluated with each new perspective brought before our eyes. I create narratives that employ historical or mythological figures in timeless settings that serve as symbolic representations to be subverted or reinterpreted in the context of my own experience. These symbols employ the language of mythologies (both personal and historical), politics, and the chaos associated with love and the wilderness. These narratives are acts of investigation.