Visually, my interests have remained much the same since childhood. I have always been attracted to pop-up books, puppet shows, paper dolls, and so on. What interests me about this type of imagery, is their distance from reality; what is on the edges or around the corner. The relative crudeness of these formats leave so much to the imagination that the experience is different for everyone who views it. I have always felt the experience to be greater when more is left to the viewers imagination, because it becomes specifically tailored to their personality (their likes and dislikes, their fears and desires) and therefore more meaningful or intense to them specifically.

I am also fascinated by the awkward edge between two and three dimensionality that simple theatre sets, make believe haunted houses, and the like exhibit; a city painted on plywood and held up by two by fours, a cardboard tree, wooden curtains and paper cars. By painting images realistically, so that they have an illusion of three dimensionality, on to what is essentially a two dimensional surface, many paintings already have some of this edge. I have tried to exaggerate this in my work by painting on plywood, cutting out each image, and staggering them slightly in space. I use realistic renderings of the object in contrast with edges and supports that are painted like brightly colored childrenÕs blocks. These wooden pieces, though unmistakably three dimensional objects, have therefore an oddly incongruous two dimensional feeling to them.