I am building a divine world composed of the natural, the communal, and the recreational. My practice involves gel pen drawings, colored pencil drawings, and acrylic marker drawings. I layer these various components on top of one another onto wood panels using a pigment transfer technique by way of acrylic matte medium. I populate my work with casual, loosely-rendered symbols of nature and agents of human connection such as laughing faces, beer cans, stars, plants, flowers, and basketballs — all onto wood and paper. By layering these represented forms, they lose their definition and delve into abstraction and pattern, blurring the line between our contemporary material reality and a playful utopia so pure it could only ever exist in the imagination. The outcome exists somewhere in between these two extremes: we cannot escape or deny the decaying world we live in today, but we can reconnect with the beauty lying pristinely within the most fundamental aspects of our natural sense of enjoyment. Behind each work I make, I am expounding the core belief driving my practice: all human beings can return to original form; that is, exist at ease in nature, connect with those of our kind, and freely access the sense of play that is intrinsic to each one of us.