Perception is understood to be the physical act of gathering information through the senses. It also refers to the synthesis or understanding of that information. I am interested in the perceptual shift between abstraction and representation, between truth and illusion, between object and picture. Painting, drawings, sculptures, and ready-mades are all apart of my art. The physicality of a painting, its object-ness, is as important to me as its capacity to convey illusion through the flat picture plane. I will often present paintings in conjunction with sculptures or ready-made objects in an effort to highlight a play between abstraction and representation. Can a ready-made be understood in terms of abstraction? Can it be separated from its function? Can a painting made from observation be perceived as abstract? Will that perception shift when in proximity to the object observed? These are some of the questions that steer my studio practice.