Throughout the course of representational painting, fabric has been used as a vehicle to better describe a figure or environment. In my work, I strip fabric of these descriptive qualities, and push it to the fringe of abstraction. Cloth exists as a representation of light, color and form in a space without gravity or definition. Its movement and texture exists as subject matter in and of itself, making the visual direction and environment more ambiguous.

In the subject of my work, I try to inspire a general mood that is determined by how the cloth reveals itself. For the fabric to be a subject and contain an interesting character, I use the light of its environment as a tool to provoke sensation. This is intended to call upon the viewer's own knowledge and relationship with how fabric physically exists in their own lives. This coupled with an ambiguous environment creates a conceptual tension for the viewer that I try to exploit. Consequently the narrative of the cloth at first seems suggestive of a more romantic or nostalgic subject, but in actuality remains a banal object in a nebulous environment.