Working from photographs, I pull apart the subject’s image, creating new collections of elements that are then reordered and reconstructed—built, really—with layer upon layer of translucent pools of color. These yellow shapes, these pink tones, those shadowy contours. Some portraits stay in a kind of abstract, pre-recognition state while others are organized and assembled into representational detail.  Overall, it’s a process of relocating: from the camera to the canvas.