With its combination of depth, intensity and emotional complexity, the language of surrealism has always appealed to me, and the medium of collage is an especially ideal one for exploring the surrealist process of juxtaposing disparate symbolic elements to create a deeper level of visual symbolic awareness. 

The process begins with the collection of a number of unrelated images to which I find myself drawn by a mysterious yet distinct resonance. These images serve as dormant life forms, which, when placed close together in certain particular groupings, give life to each other and transmute into newer and more complex life forms.

During this process, I strive for high levels of both personal emotional resonance and compositional craft, attempting to match the sensibility both of my own personal emotional "landscape" as well as that of others artists' more representational landscapes to which I tend to have the strongest emotional response.

In doing so, I hope to intrigue my viewers as I have been intrigued, with a world of both complexity and recognition, creating an emotionally evocative vista to which they feel compelled to return for expanding, ever-changing explorations.