Artist’s Statement: 

This series of paintings is based on infrared photographs–images that record heat signatures. Such images expose leaking windows, uncover unexpected pockets of warmth in the human body, disclose animals and people moving under cover of darkness, highlight the trickle of volcanic hotsprings. An abandoned cup of hot tea may dominate an empty kitchen. Recently-parked cars reveal their glowing tires in an otherwise-abject parking garage. I love these images because they surprise me, recording not only space but time. Re-framing the world in vibrant, unexpected colors, infrared scenes allow us to re-imagine human presence and reconsider our relationship to the environments we move through.