While I consider my paintings to engage with the foundational elements of art and design - color, shape, and line - these paintings can also be seen as representations of unreal or liminal spaces. Sometimes the paintings are inspired by banal details of rooms or spaces I have occupied – particularly in institutions or schools. This is because I teach as an adjunct art professor, as well as an after school art teacher in NYC public schools. As such, it is not uncommon for me to visit three or four different institutions in a week. The idiosyncratic architecture of the various schools that I work in, coupled with the life of a part-time art educator - inspires a feeling of being perpetually in-between or floating between spaces and stations and people and rooms. Because these paintings are first designed in digital media software (then painted in acrylic on canvas) I see the paintings as real manifestations of digital, or unreal, spaces or objects (shapes, lines). Therefore, in addition to explorations of color and form, I also see the paintings as representations of unreal, or liminal, spaces.