In my recent mixed-media work, I search for personal meaning in the most ordinary of surroundings.

I start by photographing suburban and urban landscapes and then use these digital printouts to begin my mixed-media collages. I work back into the prints with paint and then embroidery thread to alter the setting and distill the essential elements of each image.

The lines between the "fact" of the photographic image and the "fiction" of the paint are blurred at times, but not denied. I am not trying to hide the process, but rather, I am investigating where fact and fiction meet and how they influence and inform one another, creating a new and arguably truer story.

Materials: acrylic, digital prints and embroidery thread.