Metaphorical Subjects
I work primarily in the still life genre and focus on both metaphorical and prosaic subject matter. Some of my current influences include European vanitas painters such as Pieter Claesz, Francisco Zurburán, Gustave Caillebotte, and Jan Vermeer. My trompe l'oeil paintings address concepts of memento mori, and impermanence. My goal is not to imitate the great masters, but to understand how they thought, how they used the mediums, what their problems were, and how they approached them.
