Through the use of traditional painting methods and a specific color palette I attempt to portray the mundane act of being human. I do so by pinpointing daily routines of general life in a non prescriptive way to give a sense of normalcy to the figures in the portraits while juxtaposing them into subtly surreal environments to contrast the seemingly lifeless form. I think of this work as portraits of human psychology. My work tests the importance of the relationship between a subject and its surroundings in an image by creating a sort of moral push and pull between the two.
