The landscape itself engenders in us myriad emotions and thoughts--both primal and profound.  But the sublime grandeur of nature only obliterates my urge to paint it.  It has more often become its subtle, understated, and maybe slightly defiled aspects which attract me--possibly because this expresses a problematic sense of our own singular presence, always some distance from our source. I often sense an ordinary and unrecognized place of beauty as the center of the universe.  The generally large scale of many of my paintings further serves to anchor the viewer within the scene, thereby intensifying the impression that our presence in the world is the true subject.