Being adopted has affected most of my life in ways that I am just now beginning to realize. My works are either explorations of my adoption or some sort of emotion, feeling or state of mind. These paintings contain personal fragments of my life, revealed through transfers of actual adoption documents, water based materials, threads, and strings. Much of my recent work has been collage based and uses the techniques of adding and subtracting layers. Building up and taking away layers has always been part of my life.