For the past three years I have lived and worked in Dutchess County/the Hudson Valley, Upstate New York. Here, I cannot escape–the landscape. The natural environment of the Hudson Valley has triggers for me: rivers, ponds, mountains, trails, wetlands, farmland, and forests. I look for underlying geometry and order amid nature’s chaos. Using drawing and mark making with charcoal, graphite, and wax pencil, while layering oils, I paint an imagined reality from a perceived experience. Draw/erase. Paint/scrape. Again. And again. A ghost remains. I work toward a bilateral glimpse of interconnections between what we can see and what we imagine we can see–often including both superficial and subterranean geography. This blend casts the familiar in a new light.