My newest paintings focus on apocalypses, fables, fantastic landscapes, and reveries. My paintings echo their sources while also addressing contemporary issues such as climate change, displacement, floods, and fire. These paintings translate mythological imagery from a diverse array of sources, examining how visual culture unfolds across centuries and contexts including deities from India. These mythical figures are placed in composite imaginary landscapes and mixed with playful abstracted imagery. A comparative mythology emerges as visual motifs repeat across canvases, prompting unexpected connections. In other paintings, I have created fantastical landscapes with transformative symbolic trees and wonderlands. In these paintings, the visionary and dreamlike imagery is explored with intense and vivid color and with a riot of linear and eccentrically shaped gestures: there are many textured layers of oil paint. My canvases are always meant to be materially present with vivid strokes, colors,and graphics. I keep my painting surfaces alive with active brush marks, color, collage, textures, and patterns; the surfaces are not polished to the point of illusion. Blending familiar gestures with the unexpected, my paintings pay homage to our individual and collective pasts while also confronting our present.