This painting synthesizes imagined, experienced, and remembered spaces. Utilizing multiple idioms, the surface is in constant fracture, pattern, and rupture. Time is a relative element in its structure, just as our memories can waiver in their temporal shape. The work mimics our own construction of the landscape, fluctuating between representational space and abstractions. The use of flatness and repeat pattern is an important part of my process of investigation and reflects our culture's need for organization, but also domination. I am concerned with our manipulation of the environment and the ever-growing imbalance that has come to define the Anthropocene but intrigued by humans inherent adaptive capabilities. I have deep reverence for the North American landscape, but must question the privileges of recreation, tourism, and who has the right to explore and live alternatively in this country.