For as long as I remember I had a strong curiosity in how shapes in my environment related to one another. I would often play these shapes in my mind, aligning chair legs with the lines in the linoleum or closing one eye and noticing how my perspective changes. Once I discovered that I was able to record my perceptions through drawings and photography, it would become a sort of obsession to exercise my eyes by creating abstractions stemming from my observations. Over the past several years, my subject became construction sites based on heaps of discarded materials during my hectic daily commute through NYC’s streets on Citibike. References of these seemingly thoughtless piles were made through snapshots and thumbnail sketches, and in such a moment, they became compositions. I sought to depict the unusual relationships of different forms and maze-like formations through the use of large oil pastels and the use of straight edges and razor blades to define, scrape away, blur and overlap. In these paintings I emphasize not only the subject matter, but the varying patinas of the individual shapes by experimenting with a combination of charcoal, oil and soft pastels and graphite. As spontaneously as I encounter these subjects and my mind composes them, I paint with the same sense of immediacy, ex tempore, on the spur of the moment. As I became more obsessed with my creative process, I discovered a correlation of these compositions with human relationships and how unconventional they can be, as we all come from different origins with unique perspectives.