Previously completed paintings have been used, for their texture, as a beginning point to which I have applied layers of paint in order to create 'new' works. By drawing upon the strategies of abstraction, I have washed, dripped, rubbed and splattered paint; layer upon layer, to create and define imagined spaces. A sense of tension comes about through the way in which color, texture, line and shape compete for room within the canvas. Pastiche, surface effects and disconnected signifiers have also been called upon to express my playful outlook toward the production of art. Many of my paintings can be rotated to change the focal point or mood of the piece; this depends on the viewer's interaction with the work. Through covering up past work and by allowing the viewer to decide which way the painting should hang I am confronting the ego and the concept of the artist as genius. Contemporary music is also reflected in the rhythmic qualities of my paintings and in their given titles.