Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is I'm desperately interested in asking: How can a group of images, or even two images, have meaning together?

On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?