The Quiet Mundane captures everyday moments, creatures, and people from my life. My process is as much an approach to living as it is a body of work. Rather than viewing my life as a series of monumental moments, I am learning to appreciate the mundane, the repetitive, and the beauty of small things. Rather than letting the mundane slip by, I am attempting to bring the viewer’s focus to the little corner of the world that I inhabit. I believe by observing this, sitting with it for hours, and translating it into paint, I am elevating the mundane to something of importance, as something precious to be savored.

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Through painting, I am grounded in my observance of the small and the ordinary while the world is at each other’s throats. The Quiet Mundane is universal. While my neighbors live different lives, with different people, events, and beliefs than my own, they might still find a surprising familiarity in my work. They might find that we share many mundane moments, if not in actuality, then in spirit. In the larger world, we are all different, but in many small ways, we are the same. For me, that is quite monumental.

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