My art is a personal archive. I use oil paint to capture items from my memories that I can recall, to try to allow the viewer to go back into their own memory via contextual cues from the objects I use in my paintings and remember parts of their own childhood and experiences.

I do this via oil painting on canvas, which I size and prime myself, and with paint that I make myself, as I feel it connects me more to my paintings and, in turn, to my memories. In my paintings, I like to use the method of loci, which is an associative memory technique to retrieve information from the brain by forming rooms in which information is stored, which is most commonly referred to as a mind palace.

Instead of using my head as that place, I therapize by placing the memories from the objects into rooms in my paintings; Making the canvas with which I paint extensions of my own mind.

I also try to focus on collective childhood theory in my paintings, WHICH is the theory that the general population of people had similar experiences in childhood, primarily in education, from very, very early years, and the theory of schema, which is a memory retrieval theory that is dictated by associative memory.