I see my painting as multi-layered dreams or an expression of moments during our waking life where one bears both conscious and unconscious thoughts and visions. On the other hand I look at my photographs as simple everyday expressions; moments perhaps in their own way revealing the unseen or the layered. I expect a good piece, be it painting or a photograph to take on a life of its own and bear up to repeated scrutiny like a book that can be read and re-read. In my work I like to see any or all of the following: layers of meaning, ambiguity, sensuality, lusciousness of surface or texture, beauty and its fragility, instability, hope, paradox, and the puzzle of time.