I return to familiar American spaces: garages, roads, interiors, signs, buildings, and stretches of land. These are places people use, pass through, leave behind, and often stop seeing.

I don’t think of these spaces as empty. They hold evidence of work, memory, routine, care, neglect, and time. The people are absent, but the human presence remains.

Across the work, these places are connected by a sense of use. Something has happened there, or is about to. I simplify the forms and quiet the color so the image can sit still long enough for that presence to become visible.

I’m not trying to dramatize the ordinary world. I leave a lot out so the place can speak for itself.