Art, and painting in particular, flirts with visual desire, the need to fantasize, to confront or to create. In order to emphasize this point, I  introduced a pictorial world in my paintings where there is only one character named Steve. As an object of desire, a stand-in for the artist, and a vehicle to explore the formal and narrative possibilities within painting, Steve as a device allowed me to upset the tradition of the female nude by upturning the gender of the muse, comment on desire and also depict technology to imbricate these works in a contemporary climate. 

Between 2017-2019, I  focused my exploration of Steve’s environment onto the setting of a beach. This narrative limitation allowed me to dive deeper into my content while adding more layers of formal abstraction into the work.