Interconnection and a strong rapport with my subjects are two practices at the core of all my artwork - my mixed media paintings and photography. I don't just want to document or delight in a moment, but I strive to get to the essence of that moment. My photos are from my routines, commutes, gatherings and perform as a visual diary and study of spaces over time with special attention to recurring people, objects, or places. My paintings further distill the collected photographs by getting into visual collaborations between my painting and my photography. I feel art is about the experience where actuality and vision meet – the reality of a given space or time and the preconceptions and associations that are brought to that moment by the viewer. As a third culture kid, and former expat, I am always living between cultures and drawing connections between what is in front of me and what associations come to me from my lived experience. My photographs are the diving point for my brushes to swim with to form further connections. My art is a meditation on synchronicity and other meaningful interconnections.